One of Tri-County Health Department's many roles is to monitor the health of our communities through surveillance of a variety of sources of public health data.

We examine birth certificate data to understand trends in access to prenatal care, pre-term births and low birth-weight births. We use death certificate data to monitor trends in deaths from a variety of causes such as heart disease, cancer, injury, stroke and suicide.

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) provides information on the prevalence of health behaviors and preventive health practices associated with the leading causes of disease, disability, and premature death such as alcohol use, drug use, seatbelt non-use and non-use of recommended health screenings such as blood pressure, cholesterol and mammograms.

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) helps us understand maternal attitudes and experiences prior to, during, and immediately following pregnancy.

We use this information to help plan services at Tri-County Health Department, and also share it with other health care providers and policy makers to guide their service provision and decision making.

Community Health Profiles:
• Adams County Health Profile
• Arapahoe County Health Profile
• Douglas County Health Profile
• Extensive Community Health Profile 2007 (B&W)
• Extensive Community Health Profile 2007 (Color)
• PRAMS - Pregnancy Risk Assessment (1MB)
• Tri-County Health Department Annual Reports

Additional Tri-County Pages:
• Annual Reports
• Chronic Diseases
• Disease Prevention
• En Español / In Spanish
• Environmental Health Homepage
• Family Planning
• Immunizations
• Minority Health Concerns
• Nursing Division Homepage
• Nutrition Division Homepage
• Order Birth and Death Certificates
• Print a Brochure
• STD / HIV Testing
• Thriving Communities
• Travel Immunizations
• Tuberculosis (TB)

Related Links and Fact Sheets:
• CoHID - Colorado Health Information Data Set
• Colorado State Health and Disease Statistics
• Confidentiality (HIPAA)
• Fast Stats A - Z (CDC)
• Health Disparities
• Health-Related Quality of Life
• Health Topics A - Z (WHO)
• Healthy People 2010
• Leading Health Indicators
• Life Expectancy Worldwide
• Minority Health
• Print a Brochure
• Racial / Ethnic Health Disparities in Colorado
• State Health Department (CDPHE)
• Ten Essential Public Health Services
• US Census Data
• US Health Data
• Women's Health
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Additional Data:
A great deal of community health data referenced
by county is available to the public at the
Colorado Health Information Dataset website.

Links to our community partners - agencies, associations and government resources.

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