EVERYONE’S

TCNY/2020
OUR BROAD FOCUS AREAS
EVERY
NEIGHBORHOOD
A HEALTHY
NEIGHBORHOOD
Our city’s strength depends upon whether its people can live long and
healthy lives. We chose three indicators to describe the overall health of
our city. They are self-reported health (people’s personal sense of
well-being), premature mortality (death before age 65) and infant
mortality (death before age 1). All three are closely tied to the
environment in which people live, grow, play, love and learn. Some
New Yorkers are coping with poverty, a lack of critical health services
and racial discrimination — and as a result, their health outcomes are
worse than others’.
For example, while Black New Yorkers die of the same leading causes
as non-Black New Yorkers, they die before age 65 at a rate 45% higher
than the general population. Black babies are almost three times
as likely to die before the age of 1 as White babies. Latino/Hispanic
residents are less likely to rate their health as “excellent, very good or
good” than other groups. These disparities are unjust and avoidable.
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