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Impact of public health initiatives on life expectancy
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Commissioner Morse discusses the significant impact of public health initiatives on increasing life expectancy and preventing diseases. She emphasizes the value of these initiatives in terms of lives saved and societal costs avoided.
- Highlights the success of childhood vaccination programs in preventing illnesses and deaths
- Mentions the near-elimination of diseases like polio through routine vaccinations
- Stresses the importance of continuing public health work, citing recent increases in measles cases
Michelle Morse
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Public health can be a difficult story to tell because our greatest successes are crises averted.
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For instance, since congress established the vaccines for children program in 1994, the CDC estimates that childhood vaccinations have prevented five hundred and four million illnesses, helped avoid more than one point one million deaths, and saved nearly $2,700,000,000,000 in total societal costs just in The United States.
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Routine childhood vaccinations have effectively eliminated diseases like polio country.
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The recent increase in measles cases in The United States is a sobering reminder of how important it is to continue this life saving work.
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There is perhaps no currency more valuable than time.
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By consistently investing in the health of this city, we've given generations of New Yorkers decades of more life.