Q&A
Data collection and reporting for Healthy NYC annual progress
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Council Member Schulman inquires about the timeliness and comprehensiveness of data in the Healthy NYC annual progress report. DOHMH officials discuss their efforts to improve data collection and reporting processes.
- DOHMH working on accessing more timely data for future reports
- Balancing the need for quick data release with ensuring completeness and accuracy
- Discussion of including visual data representations, such as maps, in future reports
- Emphasis on the importance of data trends in understanding progress towards goals
Lynn Schulman
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Thank you.
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I'm just I'm just thinking out of the box and into the next century.
0:35:29
Mhmm.
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The council received the 1st annual progress report on healthy NYC last week, which is required by my bill, Local Law 46.
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The report submitted only includes data through 2022, a year before the program's launch.
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I you mentioned this in your testimony, but recognizing that this data provides limited baseline, when will DOHMH have access to more comprehensive data prior to the publication of the annual report due next September?
Michelle Morse
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Thank you for that member chair, question, chair Shulman.
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We are doing a lot of work internally in the health department to have access to even more timely data.
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We do think Healthy NYC is a motivating and mobilizing framework that allows us to have even more timely data and be even more transparent about that data.
0:36:15
We are working already on, you know, really getting things ready for our annual report.
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And I would also just note that even though, 2022 data feels, perhaps maybe not quite as timely, it really is giving us a sense of the trends, and we are happy to see the trends towards increasing life expectancy in 2022.
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I may just ask my colleague, assistant commissioner Gretchen Van Wied to also weigh in on this specific question.
Lynn Schulman
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Hi.
Gretchen Van Wye
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Hi.
0:36:47
Hi.
0:36:48
Yes.
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As the commissioner mentioned, we are doing everything we can to prepare the data and have it released in a more timely fashion.
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It is something that we're very much committed to at the agency.
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Of course, trying to balance the need to get the data out quickly, as quickly as possible, with all making sure it's complete enough to send a proper signal.
Lynn Schulman
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If there's a way that we can see some data or a little bit of data on at the council level before next September, that would be great.
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Just to see what the trends are and everything else, not to hold you totally accountable to it.
0:37:20
But, that would be great.
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So when you had the Healthy NYC Symposium, which I attended, you showed there were a couple of maps there that you showed.
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Did are those are those in the report, those maps, were they included?
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I'm not sure that they were.
Michelle Morse
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We would be happy to send those maps in follow-up.
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I don't I believe they may have been linked in the report, but they weren't Okay.
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Specific.
Lynn Schulman
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If you could send us yeah.
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Because I noticed, because I one map that I saw, took in a large part of my district.
0:37:51
So that's why I wanna see what I can do each and the other thing too is to take advantage of each of us as council members in terms of our particular districts.
0:38:00
We may be able to help with a number of things and, which brings me to the partnerships and community engagement.