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Healthy NYC campaign and goals for improving life expectancy
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Commissioner Morse introduces the Healthy NYC campaign, a comprehensive framework for approaching health in New York City. She discusses the campaign's goals and the legislative support it has received.
- Explains that Healthy NYC aims to equitably raise New Yorkers' life expectancy to 83 years by 2030
- Mentions the unanimous passing of legislation that codified Healthy NYC into law
- Acknowledges that while progress is being made, pre-existing inequities in lifespan persist
Michelle Morse
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At the health department, all of our work ladders up to one principal goal, to equitably raise New Yorkers life expectancy to its highest level ever, 83 by 2030.
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Our Healthy NYC campaign was launched not as a singular health department initiative, but as an overarching framework for how New York City should approach health.
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And we didn't do it alone.
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Thank you to chair Schulman and to this council for unanimously passing legislation last year that codified healthy NYC into law.
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This local law holds the health department accountable to extend and improve the lives of New Yorkers for years to come.
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Our most recent set of data indicates that we're moving direction but as we gain back some of the time we lost in the pandemic, we've maintained the pre existing inequities in lifespan.