As life expectancy decreases due to COVID-19 and other causes, New York City has launched the following campaign: healthy new york, It provides a comprehensive vision of how cities can increase life expectancy and build healthier cities for everyone.
Life expectancy in New York City fell from an all-time high of 82.6 years in 2019 to 78 years in 2020. This represents the largest and fastest decline in life expectancy in a century. While COVID-19 was the primary driver of this decline, parallel health crises such as overdoses, suicides, and violence also contributed to the sudden decline.
HealthyNYC’s goals include:
1. Set a goal for life expectancy in New York City (NYC) to exceed 83 years by 2030. This will be achieved through measurable reductions in overall, excess and premature deaths for the main causes of death, as well as defined health disparities within the city. Through numerical sub-targets based on demographic statistics.
2. Focus on prevention and highlight citywide priority strategies that will have the greatest impact on reducing these factors.
3. Use the most up-to-date data available and strengthened public health data systems to monitor key drivers of reduced life expectancy and health inequalities, and monitor progress toward our City’s goals. Masu.
4. Report annually on the City’s progress toward goals and reset goals every five years based on accompanying local law.
“HealthyNYC was launched as an overarching philosophy for how New York City should approach public health across all government lines. We set out to raise the city’s life expectancy to record levels. ,” Acting Director of Health Dr. Michelle Morse, MPH, said in a statement. “In doing so, we have dedicated ourselves to improving the most important indicators of human progress.”
HealthyNYC is a population health agenda for collective and strategic planning, collaboration, action, and accountability. This will be an ongoing campaign, and will be used, reported, and updated regularly by current and future administrations as data changes and new conditions and needs arise.
As an example of a specific goal, overdose deaths have increased by more than 75% since 2019. The goal is to reduce deaths by 25% by 2030. Here are some steps to achieve that goal.
• Increase access to quality harm reduction services, including naloxone and overdose prevention centers.
• Increase access to quality treatment and recovery services, including:
Medication therapy (MAT) and methadone.
• Reduce stigma and social isolation.
• Increase non-fatal overdose response services.
• Increase access to drug testing services.
• Support federal policy and law enforcement efforts to reduce fentanyl.
Supply of medicines.
Although the overall maternal mortality rate has remained stable in New York City since 2001, extreme racial disparities remain. From 2008 to 2012, approximately 2,300 to 3,100 people experienced life-threatening complications during childbirth. From 2011 to 2020, maternal mortality rates for Black women increased by 6%. Between 2016 and 2020, Black women were four times more likely to die from maternal mortality than white women.
HealthyNYC’s goal is to reduce pregnancy-related mortality rates for Black women by 10% by 2030. Priority strategies to achieve your goals include:
• Ensure new families have access to medical and social support.
• Increase access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health care for people of color who may become pregnant, are pregnant, or have recently given birth.
• Increase access to quality mental health and addictions support.
After pregnancy.
• Identifying a person of color who may be pregnant, is pregnant, or is pregnant.
Those who have recently given birth have access to care and prevention resources for chronic and diet-related diseases.
• Improve overall access and quality of obstetric care.
Continuation of pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal care
In an effort to align private and public goals, the Department of Health launched the HealthyNYC Partner Initiative in June 2024. Organizations are invited to become HealthyNYC Supporters or HealthyNYC Champions.
While HealthyNYC Supporters primarily advance HealthyNYC through expansion, HealthyNYC Champions choose to make specific commitments related to enhancing or designing programs to best advance HealthyNYC’s goals. Partners can expand HealthyNYC through their own community initiatives and advance programs that contribute to our goals. In return, partners receive promotional materials, access to tools and resources from the health department, and opportunities to collaborate with other partners. HealthyNYC partners include non-governmental organizations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, businesses, academic organizations, and philanthropic organizations.
Since its launch, more than 30 institutions have joined as HealthyNYC Champions or Supporters.
Supporters include:
•Manat
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Mount Sinai
Champions include:
• American Heart Association
• American Cancer Society
• Carnegie Hall
• Columbia University Postman School of Public Health
• Commonwealth Fund
• State University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy
• DC37
•Emblem Health
• Greater New York State Hospital Association
• Human Services Council
• Inunity Alliance
• Milken Institute
• Tohoku Business Group on Health
• NYU Langone Health
• New York Academy of Medicine
• Rockefeller Foundation
• United Way of New York
