This report describes the distribution of viral hepatitis, STDs, HIV and TB in New York City, including coinfection with more than one disease, and can help identify communities most at risk and target programs to manage and prevent the spread of infections.
This report compares the demographic characteristics and health status of New Yorkers from the Cell Phone Pilot Survey (adults with cellular phones) to New Yorkers from the 2008 Community Health Survey (adults with landline phones). There were limited differences between the two groups.
The Affordable Care Act, the nation's recent health care reform law, is expected to expand access to health insurance coverage to more New Yorkers. This report describes the health care of the citizens of New York, in terms of access, capacity, and quality, before the implementation of the Afforable Care Act.
This report describes approaches to matching data from multiple datasets and presents a case study using the RecordLinkage package for R to match vital records with correctional health records. The report includes an appendix with sample code.
West Nile Virus (WNV) is now considered an endemic in the United States and is the leading cause of viral encephalitis. This data brief examines trends in the West Nile disease in New York City from 1999 to 2012.
The Community Health Survey in New York City collects stair use data, providing an opportunity to assess individual characteristics of stair users as well as highlight self-reported health status associated with stair use in the NYC population.
This report describes drug poisoning deaths, also called overdose deaths, related to prescription opioid analgesics. It examines the trend in these deaths between 2006 and 2011 and looks at deaths involving a combination of drugs.
This series of five reports provides detailed data on trends regarding unintentional drug poisoning (overdose) deaths involving opioids between 2000 and 2013 in each of the five boroughs.