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Overview and progress of the Healthy NYC program
3:18:46
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Council Member Lynn Schulman inquires about the Healthy NYC program, which aims to increase the city's life expectancy to 83 by 2030. Acting Commissioner Michelle Morse provides an update on the program's progress and challenges.
- Life expectancy in NYC has increased to 81.5 years, on track to meet or exceed the 2030 goal
- Specific focus areas include black maternal mortality and overdose rates among black and Latino New Yorkers
- Recent initiatives include launching improvement collaboratives and increasing the number of partners in the Healthy NYC campaign
Lynn Schulman
3:18:46
In in the calendar year 2020 due to the pandemic, the city's life expectancy dropped from 82.6 to 78.
3:18:55
Healthy NYC is a city program that seeks to increase the life expectancy in the city to 83 by 2030.
3:19:01
The program seeks to reduce death rates from different drivers of mortality in the city including diabetes, drug overdose, and pregnancy associated death.
3:19:09
Please provide an update on the operations of the Healthy NYC program and how effective it's been so far.
Michelle Morse
3:19:15
Thank you for that question.
3:19:17
We're about a year and a half now into the launch of Healthy NYC.
3:19:21
We recently released our 2022 data that showed that life expectancy in New York City had increased to 81.5, which puts us on track to meet or exceed our goal of eighty three years by 02/1930.
3:19:35
So that's progress and that's exciting news.
3:19:37
We do have more work to do specifically in the area of black maternal mortality and also specifically in the area of overdose where there are significant racial inequities and rising rates of overdose amongst black and Latino New Yorkers.
3:19:51
So we know where we need to focus, and we know that we, you know, we are hopeful that we will achieve our goal of eighty three years by 02/1930.
3:19:59
We also recently launched a couple of the improvement collaboratives that are focused specifically on some of the drivers of Healthy NYC.
3:20:08
The first one is focused specifically on racial inequities in overdose deaths, and our mental hygiene team that was here earlier today is leading that work.
3:20:17
So we're continuing to march forward and we are also increasing we have increased recently the number of partners in the Healthy NYC campaign as well.