Did you know that 27 percent of Health District residents don’t get sufficient sleep on a typical day? That one in five residents report having depression, anxiety or some other mental health problems? Or that since 1995 the number of local people smoking cigarettes has dropped by half, while seatbelt use has increased by nearly a third?

You can find these and other tidbits about our community’s health in a series of fact sheets now available from the Health District. The documents pull together some of the more interesting findings from the Health District’s most recent Community Health Survey conducted in 2013.

In addition to a summary of the survey’s key findings, detailed fact sheets are available on access to care, mental health, oral health, substance abuse, tobacco and the uninsured. The Community Health Survey is one of the largest community-level surveys of its kind and assesses the health status and health-care needs of Larimer County residents. The Health District has performed the survey every three years since 1995, using data collected to plan services and assist other community agencies.

Read or download the new fact sheets here.