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Healthy NYC initiative progress and life expectancy goals
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Council Member Lynn Schulman inquires about the effectiveness of the Healthy NYC initiative. Acting Commissioner Michelle Morse reports on the progress towards improving life expectancy and reducing mortality rates.
- The city is on track to meet or exceed the goal of improving life expectancy to 83 by 2030
- Significant progress has been made in reducing COVID-related mortality
- Areas of concern include overdose rates for Black and Latino New Yorkers and Black maternal mortality
- Improvements are seen in COVID-related mortality, cardiovascular and diabetes-related mortality, with stable rates in cancer-related mortality
- Suicide rates have remained stable, but more data analysis is needed
Lynn Schulman
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Healthy NYC.
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In the calendar year 2020 due to the pandemic, the city's life expectancy as you know you know all of this.
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How effective has healthy NYC been so far?
Michelle Morse
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We are happy to report that in the 2022 data we released, we are on track to meet our goal of improving life expectancy to 83 by 02/1930, on track to meet or exceed it.
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So we have seen a significant progress and a huge reduction in the rate of mortality for COVID.
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We are still seeing some areas of concern in the rates of overdose for black and Latino New Yorkers, in our black maternal mortality rate, and in a few other areas.
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So we still have work to do.
Lynn Schulman
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Are all seven mortality drivers other than the one you just mentioned on track to reach the goals by 02/1930?
Michelle Morse
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We we really look kind of in an aggregate, but what we have seen is that we have significant reduction in COVID, as I meant COVID related mortality.
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We do still have work to do with the rate of overdose.
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It has plateaued citywide, but the racial inequities in overdose rates have increased for black and Latino New Yorkers.
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So that is an area of concern.
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We've also seen a small increase in black maternal mortality and we have work to do again to address that.
Lynn Schulman
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Which areas are improving the most so far?
Michelle Morse
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So far our biggest improvements are in COVID related mortality and cardiovascular and diabetes related mortality and we've seen stable rates of cancer related mortality.
Lynn Schulman
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Okay.
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Do you have the figures you can send us for those?
Michelle Morse
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We would be happy to.
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We actually just released some of this data on a webpage that has interactive ability for the public to look at the ways in which our overall life expectancy and each of the seven drivers is trending.
Lynn Schulman
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What do you attribute the success of some of those areas?
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Is there anything specific or?
Michelle Morse
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For COVID related mortality, we believe strongly that that was related to our extensive vaccination campaign.
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For our cancer related mortality, the story is evolving.
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So we have more data analysis to do.
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And we also have more data analysis to do really for all the other drivers as well.
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We've seen suicide stay about stable but we have more analysis to do and more data to release eventually.
Lynn Schulman
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As you're doing the analysis, presuming that at some point there are federal cuts, will you be able to adjust to show that that was because that whatever data you're getting was based on something else that happened, some outside factor?