This interactive system will help you answer health-related questions
about your neighborhood, borough and New York City overall with many
different types of data. Learn about death rates, obesity, smoking
rates and much, much more!
More Data on the Health of New Yorkers:
• NEW!Environmental Public Health
Tracking Portal: Access to data and information about the
environment and health in New York City. Create reports, tables, charts
and maps for NYC and its neighborhoods.
• NEW!NYC Community
Health Atlas 2007: More than 40 multi-colored, thematic New
York City maps showing the neighborhood distribution of a wide
variety of health indicators, from Health Care Access to Weight and
Nutrition.
• Community Health Survey
Summary Reports: Easy-to-read reports summarizing CHS data in tables
and charts on a variety of health topics (such as diabetes) and for
different populations of New Yorkers (such as Native Americans).
• INJURY IN NEW
YORK CITY: Find out about unintentional (accidental), intentional
(assault) and self-inflicted injury emergency department visits,
hospitalizations and deaths.
• BIRTH
& INFANT MORTALITY TRENDS: Ten years of trend data on
select maternal and infant characteristics for all live births and
infant deaths occurring in NYC.
• RAT INFORMATION PORTAL/MAPPING
TOOL: Learn what you can do to control rats and map rat inspections,
violations and health department response in NYC.
• PUBLIC USE DATASETS: Download survey
datafiles, data documentation, questionnaires, sample SAS programs for
analysis, and additional survey info.
• PREGNANCY IN
NYC: Tables of selected results from PRAMS, an ongoing
population-based survey of new mothers in New York City (NYC) designed
to monitor maternal experiences and behaviors before, during and after
pregnancy.
• CHILDHOOD
LEAD POISONING: Numbers and rates of children newly identified
with lead poisoning broken down by age, borough, and neighborhood.
• NEIGHBORHOOD
STATISTICS: Numbers for each borough and 42 NYC neighborhoods on
demographics, mortality (death rates), hospitalization rates, maternal
and child health, health status, and health care & preventive
services.
Tools & Resources:
• Community Health Survey - ESRI Shapefiles: The
Community Health Survey shapefiles contain aggregated city-wide rates by
United Hospital Fund neighborhoods for use in mapping software. The
health topics cover a number of areas including physical activity,
diabetes, obesity, mental health, and sexual risk factors.
• Vital Signs - brief
reports on important health topics (such as mental health, adolescent
health, asthma, obesity) in New York City
• City Health Information
(CHI) - Reports on timely public health topics of interest to the
medical care community. Include practice guidelines, resources, and
more.
• HIV/AIDS
Statistical Reports - Regularly updated surveillance and
epidemiology publications, as well as research reports on pediatric
and adolescent HIV/AIDS, among other topics
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Slide Sets - HIV/AIDS surveillance data for 2007, including new
diagnoses of HIV and AIDS, persons living with HIV/AIDS and deaths, as
well as trends and pediatric data
• HIV/AIDS Research Slide
Sets - Research results on HIV risks and prevalence from several
studies of HIV risk groups (e.g., men who have sex with men, injection
drug users, etc.) and HIV-infected individuals in NYC.
• Online
Data Resources - Slide set on the extensive health data resources
offered through the Health Department website.
• REQUEST A PRESENTATION (query@health.nyc.gov): DOHMH staff are
available to present on health data for a variety of topics and
populations. Please email us if you would like to set up such a
presentation.
