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From Crain's today:
New goals for public health
State and city health officials yesterday unveiled a blueprint for improving the health of New Yorkers over the next five years. Obesity and smoking are predictably on the prevention agenda, but so are reducing falls among the elderly, and pre-term births.
The official "Prevention Agenda 2013-17: New York State's Health Improvement Plan" was devised with input from about 140 groups, including hospitals, local health departments, providers, insurers, employers and schools.
The plan's targets include cutting the number of obese adults by 5%, which would nudge the age-adjusted percentage of adults over 18 who are obese down to 23% from 24.2%. The state also is thrusting more health care providers and insurers into playing a role in obesity prevention and treatment The smoking target is to cut the number of smokers among adults with incomes under $25,000 by 30%, from a prevalence of 28.5% in 2011 to a goal of 20%.
Among other goals: The newly diagnosed HIV case rate would fall by 25% to no more than 14.7 new diagnoses per 100,000; and the percentage of births under 37 weeks gestation would be cut by 12%, to a rate of 10.2%.
How did New York state do in meeting the goals of the previous five-year agenda? More adults have health insurance, and there were declines in infant mortality, smoking rates, asthma-related hospitalizations, and female breast cancer mortality.
Other indicators moved in the wrong direction. Early-stage cervical cancer diagnoses fell 11%. The percentage of adults who were hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a whopping 40% higher than the goals set in the last "Prevention Agenda." The incidence of lung cancer in women is 35% higher. Fewer children were fully immunized, and more were born to mothers who did not get early prenatal care.
Obesity also was a challenge. The percentage of obese adults was 63.3% higher than the state's five-year goal.
The new "Prevention Agenda" is online here. http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/prevention_agenda/2013-2017/index.htm
The report card on the prior agenda is online here. http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/prevention_agenda/2013-2017/docs/progress_to_date.pdf
Reporters: to arrange interviews with NYAM medical and urban health experts, contact
Andrew J. Martin, Director of Communications
212-822-7285 / amartin@nyam.org
The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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