If I were a patient and I used the ‘New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’ website it would be a convenient website to search for data for heart disease. ‘HealthPeople2020’ website is also a good site to look for information. The ‘New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’ website has Health Topics under ‘Our health’ which has various types of health issues. When I searched for heart disease particularly, it was very easy to navigate; it has included all the factors that
As a resident in Fresh Meadows for twenty years, conducting a community health assessment was an opportunity to learn more about the neighborhood. Located in the northeastern section of New York 's Queens County, this small town was first named “Flushing Meadows” before the American Revolution. This was due to large areas of wet meadows that were also partially located in Flushing. Nonetheless, Fresh Meadows has become home to many with its diverse community in cultures and ages, and activities for
According to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Brownsville ranks fourth out of 59 community districts in NYC for alcohol and drug related hospitalizations. Drug addicts and alcoholics can be seen loitering in front of stores or on public transportation. Along with poor living conditions, Brownsville has a high volume of crime. Brownsville has the second highest incarceration rate in the NYC (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene). Frequent shootings take place
Local health department that I am going to explore in Ithaca Tompkins is Mental Health Department. The geographically Tompkins is located in rural area compare to New York City but the form the population in 2013: 30515 (100% urban) since 2000. The population of the Ithaca Tompkins 2849. The socioeconomic characteristics of the country’s population are middle class because they household income is about to $39,861 and individual poverty level is under 12.4%. Their health uninsured coverage percent
The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene adopted rules which aim to repeal and recode the current law, Chapter 23 of Title 24, of the rules of the New York City to specify sanitary inspection procedures in different food service establishments (Chapter 23 of Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York, 2010). In July 2010, New York City Mayor Bloomberg lunched New York’s Restaurant letter Grading program (NYC Health, 2013). The New York City Health department started requiring restaurants
psychiatric inpatient beds, which is 40.2 beds per100,000 compared to 41.0 in NYC (NYS DOH, 2014). There are 186 mental health residential programs in Brooklyn, including apartment/treatment, children and youth community residences, congregate support, congregate treatment, single room occupancy (SRO) community residence, supported housing community service, and supported/SRO (OMH, 2014). However, the distribution of the behavioral health resources are scattered in the Brooklyn Borough. Not every neighborhoods
and how Brighpoint Health may be affected by ongoing changes in policies and protocols under this health reform. Brightpoint Health mission is to provide access to health care and social support services to New Yorkers in all 5 boroughs. As a community based health organization we assist vulnerable population of our city, those who are deprived of access to health care due to lack or absence of income, education and discrimination. Our goal is to improve our patients’ health, prevent their illnesses
Conference of State Legislatures (2015) recommends all women to breastfeed in order to improve infant health and to prevent potential adverse health outcomes. This paper proposes a breastfeeding education policy to increase the rate of breastfeeding among African American women that will lead to improved overall health for these women and their infants. This will consequently ease the health
million low-income residents rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (nyc.gov). According to Hunger Experience poll done by food bank of NYC approximately 2.6 million new Yorkers reported difficulty to buy food in 2012 which is 32 percent of the population. About 30 percent of the residents buy less food to afford living in the NYC, and about 17 percent of the residents buy less healthy food because they cannot afford the healthy food. In addition, 39 percent families with children
and aggregated to create one complete data set (in Excel or Access), preliminary maps should be created to show each indicator reflected on separate maps. Depending on the quality of data collected, three sets of maps will show national ACE trends, NYC ACE data, and Bronx ACE data. A sample map of ACE trends is shown in Appendix A. Figure 1. Phase 1, GIS Operations Flow