This report describes the results of the Health Department's neighborhood rat indexing program in the Bronx and Manhattan from 2010 to 2014. The rat surveillance program inspects all properties for signs of rat activity and works with property owners to abate rodents.
This report examines access to preventive and primary health care among immigrants in New York City. Recommendations to help improve these conditions for this population are included.
The brief highlights the prevalence of non-medical use of benzodiazepines (without a prescription or in a manner other than prescribed), trends in overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines, and benzodiazepine prescribing patterns in New York City.
This report describes data on psychiatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents in NYC, 2013. Trends in hospitalization rates between 2000 and 2013 are presented, as well as primary diagnosis and demographic characteristics of 2013 hospitalizations.
This report presents data on hospitalizations overnight or longer on a psychiatric inpatient unit, among adult New Yorkers, 2013. Data on primary diagnosis, source of reimbursement, and demographic and geographic characteristics are provided.
A report detailing the status of the Office of Building Water Supply Oversight's (BWSO) cooling tower program and the number of cases of Legionnaire's disease in the city.
The annual Child Fatality Review Advisory Team report summarizes data on child injury deaths. The 2016 report includes trends from 1999-2013 and examines deaths due to both unintentional and intentional causes, by area-based poverty and by race/ethnicity. Recommendations for reducing child injury deaths are included.
The brief summarizes the findings of a 2014 study of pediatric care providers in the catchment area of the South Bronx Neighborhood Health Action Center (formerly District Public Health Office). Health Department evaluators surveyed providers regarding their adherence to CDC best practice guidelines. The brief describes the demographic and practice characteristics of these providers as well as their adherence to CDC best practices.