Healthy communities have safe places to exercise, access to fresh fruit and vegetables, clean air and water, and laws that help protect the public. KHI researchers and journalists work to understand and describe the various factors that influence health, including exercise, school nutrition and immunizations.
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With the release of the 2013 County Health Rankings, Kansas counties can see how they compare with their neighbors so they can identify where they do well and where they can improve.
0 | Mar. 20, 2013 |
With the release of the 2013 County Health Rankings, Kansas counties can see how they compare with their neighbors so they can identify where they do well and where they can improve.
0 | Jan. 23, 2013 |
This new issue brief examines whether a statewide smoking ban enacted in 2010 was associated with a change in sales at Kansas restaurants and bars. The Legislature approved the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act to protect the health of Kansans by reducing their exposure to secondhand smoke in most public places.
5 | Oct. 23, 2012 |
The Kansas Health Institute recently completed its first health impact assessment, which examined the potential health effects associated with casino development in Southeast Kansas. This new report features findings of the health impact assessment and outlines recommendations to maximize the positive health benefits of a proposed casino and mitigate its potential negative effects on health.
0 | Apr. 03, 2012 |
With the release of the 2012 County Health Rankings, Kansas counties can see how they compare with their neighbors so they can identify where they are doing well and where they need to improve.
1 | Oct. 25, 2011 |
Healthy Communities Wyandotte is a countywide initiative to involve local leaders and residents in improving the health of people in the community.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Dr. Robert Moser is scheduled to discuss the agency’s ongoing interest in finding ways to integrate primary care and public health during a Wednesday appearance before Kansas Association of Local Health Departments.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
In Kansas last year, one-fourth of the homicides involved domestic violence.
0 | Jun. 13, 2013 |
The Kansas Health Institute has added more than $86 million to the economy of Topeka and Shawnee County since it was founded in 1995, according to the chief executive of the Kansas Health Foundation, which is the institute's major funder.
0 | Jun. 13, 2013 |
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the nation overall is aging but Kansas was one of only five states where the median age of residents decreased.
0 | Jun. 11, 2013 |
The Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition annual statewide meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Kansas Museum of History.
0 | Jun. 17, 2013 |
A late, largely unnoticed addition to the budget bill that was approved in the final days of this year’s legislative session appears to be a boon for a Kansas company that sells access to a computer program intended to help elementary students learn to read.
1 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas is among the states where federal officials will run the new health insurance exchanges but the state’s top insurance regulators said they hope to inject a local flavor. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said her agency has been in discussion with the feds about having some of the more complex calls to the exchange’s toll-free helpline roll over to her department so that Kansas consumers come in touch quickly with local people more familiar with the Kansas insurance plans offered in the exchange and the governing regulations.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
The regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services met with representatives of about 10 Kansas health consumer groups to discuss implementation of the Affordable Care Act. "It will be ready. It will happen," said administrator Stephene Moore of the Oct. 1 launch date for the ACA insurance marketplace.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
The Tower Mental Health Foundation is soliciting grant applications for projects and activities that support mental health services in Kansas.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
As part of a high-profile White House initiative, the metropolitan area is among a handful of communities around the country expected to gather hundreds of people for a meeting about mental illness within the next few months.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
Expanded privatization, according to officials at the Kansas Department for Children and Families, could increase child support collections by $52 million over a three-year period.
1 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas is among the states where federal officials will run the new health insurance exchanges but the state’s top insurance regulators said they hope to inject a local flavor. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said her agency has been in discussion with the feds about having some of the more complex calls to the exchange’s toll-free helpline roll over to her department so that Kansas consumers come in touch quickly with local people more familiar with the Kansas insurance plans offered in the exchange and the governing regulations.
2 | Jun. 10, 2013 |
School administrators at small, rural districts around the state say they are alarmed and confounded by the looming, new costs they face with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
1 | Jun. 07, 2013 |
The governor and state health officer announced a coming online exercise program designed to encourage Kansans to exercise more, and state workers who do so can earn insurance premium discounts.
3 | Jun. 04, 2013 |
A state senator who has adopted four boys out of foster care said he’s putting together a plan for reforming the state’s foster care and adoption programs. “There need to be changes in every single part of the system,” said Sen. Forrest Knox, an Altoona Republican.
2 | Jun. 07, 2013 |
Kansas officials this week made public their first quarterly report to federal authorities on the progress of KanCare, Gov. Sam Brownback's initiative to move virtually all the state's Medicaid enrollees into privately run managed care plans.
2 | Apr. 01, 2013 |
Prominent politicians born in log cabins weren’t that common even in the old days. Before House Speaker Ray Merrick came along, Kansas hadn’t had one since Charles Curtis, the long-time U.S. senator who went on to become vice president under Herbert Hoover.
Determined to move Wyandotte County, Kansas, out of last place in the County Health Rankings, Mayor Joe Reardon and community partners are working together to improve the health of the county's citizens.
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