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New York Health Foundation (NYHealth)

WEBBest of 2023 Annual Report. In 2023, as pandemic-era policies came to an end, NYHealth focused on connecting New Yorkers to healthy food; advancing primary care; improving veterans’ health; and responding to time-sensitive and emerging health issues.

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URL: https://nyhealthfoundation.org/

Healthy Food, Healthy Lives

WEBOur overarching goal is to connect New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive. To achieve this goal, we focus on four strategies: (1) support healthy, more equitable food systems planning and capacity-building; (2) maximize nutrition benefit programs; (3) support healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing in public institutions; and (4

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Building Healthy Communities I Clinton County

WEBContact. New York Health Foundation 1385 Broadway, 23rd Floor New York, NY 10018. T: (212) 664-7656 E: [email protected]

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2024 Special Projects Fund

WEB2024 Special Projects Fund. The New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) has a broad mission to improve the health of all New Yorkers, especially people of color and others who have been historically marginalized. The Foundation concentrates most of our grantmaking in three strategic priority areas: Primary Care; Healthy Food, Healthy Lives; and

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Still Hungry: Food Insufficiency in New York State 2020–2023

WEBNew Yorkers in economically precarious positions still face challenges getting healthy, affordable food. This data brief examines household trends in food insufficiency from May 2020 through October 2023 in New York State. Since the onset of the pandemic, the U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey has tracked the social and economic impact of

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Past Priority Area: Building Healthy Communities

WEBGrantmaking in the Building Healthy Communities program closed at the end of 2020. We have launched our new Healthy Food, Healthy Lives program. This new program’s overarching goal is to connect New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive. To achieve this goal, we focus on four strategies: (1) support, more equitable healthy food systems

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Still Recovering: Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic …

WEBKey Findings. In May 2020, shortly after the start of the pandemic, more than one-third (35%) of adult New Yorkers reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depression in the prior week (referred to in this report as experiencing poor mental health). That rate is generally two to three times higher than what was reported in the pre-pandemic period by a …

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Fact Sheet: Community Health Workers in New York State

WEBCHWs serve as a bridge between patients and the health care system—they improve access to care and health outcomes, address social needs like housing and healthy food access, and lower health care costs. The CHW workforce is projected to grow in New York State by 44% between 2020 and 2030, much faster than other health care occupations.

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Building Healthy Communities

WEBContact. New York Health Foundation 1385 Broadway, 23rd Floor New York, NY 10018. T: (212) 664-7656 E: [email protected]

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State of the State: Health Hits and Misses

WEBNew York State’s 7,000 or so CHWs are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of their communities; more than half of CHWs are people of color. CHWs are associated with improving access to care and health outcomes, addressing social determinants of health like housing and food access, and lowering health care costs.

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Special Projects Fund

WEBOur Special Projects Fund enables us to support projects that address important health care or public health issues in the State, but are outside of our focused areas of work (Primary Care; Healthy Food, Healthy Lives; and Veterans’ Health). We seek to help a wide range of organizations take on innovative projects that can improve health more

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More Diverse and Older: Demographic Implications for New York's …

WEBOverall New York State Population Overall Population Growth Projected to Be Stagnant. The total population in 2019 for New York State was estimated to be 19.5 million, according to the latest estimates by the U.S. Census. Figure 1 displays five potential scenarios for the growth in the total State population from 2020 through 2050. These five scenarios are …

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Improving Health Care Access for Homeless New Yorkers

WEBEvery night, more than 50,000 people are homeless in New York City, including more than 22,000 children. Chronic diseases disproportionately affect people who are homeless, leading to poor health outcomes and premature deaths. Adjusted mortality rates among homeless individuals are three or more times greater than that of the general population.

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Past Priority Area: Empowering Health Care Consumers

WEBProjects in this area include: Building the evidence for price and quality transparency and the State’s role in advancing it. Helping health care stakeholders understand what consumers want, through a statewide survey on price transparency. Encouraging the health care system’s use of patient-experience and user-generated ratings such as Yelp.

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HEALTH CARE SPENDING TRENDS IN NEW YORK STATE

WEB$10,000 SOURCE: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health Expenditures by State of Residence, 2011. NOTE: Personal health care expenditures include all spending on a wide range of services to treat individuals with specific medical conditions, but exclude other types of health care-related

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