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Council Member Louis Questions DOHMH on Women Forward NYC Health Focuses
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Council Member Farah Louis asks DOHMH about the selection process for health issues under the Women Ford and Wacey Agenda. The response highlights the use of health outcomes and surveillance data to identify preventable illnesses and severe inequities affecting women. Key focus areas include reducing pregnancy-related mortality among Black women, breast cancer mortality, HPV vaccination rates, HIV diagnosis rates among Black and Latino women, and feelings of hopelessness among high school girls.
Speaker 1
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In January 2023, mayor Adams announced the New York City Women's Health Agenda, now called Women Ford and Wacey.
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Aimed at addressing the systemic inequity that women often experience in health care and in other areas in their lives.
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This agenda stems from the city's first ever women's health Summit that to all health, which convene more than a 100,000 experts across various health sectors I wanted to ask how did DOH MH decide which health issues to focus on regarding this agenda?
Speaker 4
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Thank you for that question.
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The health department is involved in the Women's Forward Agenda.
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We are one of multiple different sister agencies who are involved in city city hall led the action plan, but I can speak to the health department part of it specifically.
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One of the ways that we contributed towards the plan was that we looked at some of our health outcomes and health data that we do surveillance on across the city, and we looked at some of the biggest drivers of preventable illness and death for women and girls.
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And we also looked at what are the most egregious inequities as well.
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And this led us to suggest a focus on 4 key areas to make New York City more healthy for women.
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So those areas are around reducing pregnancy associated mortality, among black women by 10%, reducing breast cancer mortality by 10% with a focus on reductions in for black women, increasing the percentage of thirteen year olds with completed HPV vaccines by 40%, reducing the annual HIV diagnosis rates for black and Latino women by 50% and reducing the percentage of public high school girls who report feelings that are hopeless by 10%.
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So those were some of the areas that our data told us should be areas of focus because of the level of inequity.
Speaker 1
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Thank you for that.
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And Is this did you also include the data identified by the CDC as the leading causes?
Speaker 4
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That's a great question.
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We looked more at New York City specifically, but I think the overlap is a 100% with the CDC priorities as well.