Successful, Easy to Access, Online Publication of COVID-19 Data During the Pandemic, New York City, 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (S3) ◽  
pp. S193-S196
Author(s):  
Matthew Peter Mannix Montesano ◽  
Kimberly Johnson ◽  
Andrew Tang ◽  
Jennifer Sanderson Slutsker ◽  
Pui Ying Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Public Health Data ◽  
Pandemic Response

Making public health data easier to access, understand, and use makes it more likely that the data will be influential. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Web-based data communication became a cornerstone of NYC’s response and allowed the public, journalists, and researchers to access and understand the data in a way that supported the pandemic response and brought attention to the deeply unequal patterns of COVID-19’s morbidity and mortality in NYC. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(S3):S193–S196. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306446 )

scholarly journals Outcomes of COVID-19 Admissions in the New York City Public Health System and Variations by Hospitals and Boroughs During the Initial Pandemic Response

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anant Dinesh ◽  
Taha Mallick ◽  
Tatiana M. Arreglado ◽  
Brian L. Altonen ◽  
Ryan Engdahl
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Health System ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Mortality Trends ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pandemic Response

Introduction: In the initial pandemic regional differences may have existed in COVID-19 hospitalizations and patient outcomes in New York City. Whether these patterns were present in public hospitals is unknown. The aim of this brief study was to investigate COVID-19 hospitalizations and outcomes in the public health system during the initial pandemic response.Methods: A retrospective review was conducted on COVID-19 admissions in New York City public hospitals during the exponential phase of the pandemic. All data were collected from an integrated electronic medical records system (Epic Health Systems, Verona, WI). Overall, 5,422 patients with at least one admission each for COVID-19 were reviewed, with a study of demographic characteristics (including age, gender, race, BMI), pregnancy status, comorbidities, facility activity, and outcomes. Data related to hospitalization and mortality trends were also collected from City of New York website. These data often involved more than one facility and/or service line resulting in more location or treatment facility counts than patients due to utilization of services at more than one location and transfers between locations and facilities.Results: Higher mortality was associated with increasing age with the highest death rate (51.9%) noted in the age group >75 years (OR 7.88, 95%CI 6.32–10.08). Comorbidities with higher mortality included diabetes (OR 1.5, 95% CI 1.33–1.70), hypertension (OR 1.62, 95% CI 1.44–1.83), cardiovascular conditions (OR 1.66, 95% CI 1.47–1.87), COPD (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.39–2.50). It was deduced that 20% of all New York City COVID-19 positive admissions were in public health system during this timeframe. A high proportion of admissions (21.26%) and deaths (19.93%) were at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Bellevue and Metropolitan Hospitals had the lowest number of deaths, both in borough of Manhattan. Mortality in public hospitals in Brooklyn was 29.9%, Queens 28.1%, Manhattan 20.4%.Conclusion: Significant variations existed in COVID-19 hospitalizations and outcomes in the public health system in New York City during the initial pandemic. Although outcomes are worse with older age and those with comorbidities, variations in hospitals and boroughs outside of Manhattan are targets to investigate and strategize efforts.

scholarly journals Ideologies of Black churches in New York City and the public health crisis of HIV among Black men who have sex with men

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (sup2) ◽  
pp. S227-S242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Wilson ◽  
Natalie M. Wittlin ◽  
Miguel Muñoz-Laboy ◽  
Richard Parker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Black Men ◽  
York City ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Sex With Men

Rebuilding the Public Health Infrastructure: The Challenge of Tuberculosis Control in New York City

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 352-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Hamburg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Infrastructure ◽  
Health Infrastructure

Nowhere in this nation is the return of tuberculosis more visible or more pronounced than in New York City. Fueled by poverty, homelessness and AIDS, tuberculosis has again reached epidemic proportions. New York City is at the forefront of the battle against this advancing disease. For this reason, and because the dynamics at work in New York City are a microcosm of those same forces at work in the larger society, what transpires here often foreshadows the direction that other urban centers will take. It is in this context that our New York experience provides a valuable framework for learning and for action.

scholarly journals The Public Health Benefits of Reducing Fine Particulate Matter through Conversion to Cleaner Heating Fuels in New York City

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (23) ◽  
pp. 13573-13582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iyad Kheirbek ◽  
Jay Haney ◽  
Sharon Douglas ◽  
Kazuhiko Ito ◽  
Steven Caputo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
York City ◽  
Fine Particulate Matter ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fine Particulate
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