Healthy Environment

Objectives

Each community's progress towards reaching these Prevention Agenda Goals and Objectives will be tracked so members can see how close each community is to meeting the goals.

  • By the year 2013, reduce New York's incidence of elevated lead levels in children and in adults in the workforce so that:
    • The incidence of children aged < 72 months with a confirmed blood lead level of > 10ug/dl (per 100 children tested) is 0. Baseline: 1.7 per 100 children tested, Childhood Lead Program data, NYS excl. NYC 2001-2003. (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
    • The incidence of elevated blood lead levels ( >25 ug/dl) per 100,000 employed persons age 16+ is 0. Baseline: 6.4 per 100,000 employed persons 16+, NYS Heavy Metals Registry, 2003-2005. (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
  • By the year 2013, reduce asthma related hospitalizations in New York so that:
    • The age-adjusted asthma hospitalization rate is no more than 16.7 per 10,000. Baseline: 22.2 per 10,000, SPARCS, 2003-2005.(Healthy People 2010 Goal not available for total population - twenty-five percent reduction from 2003-05 baseline.)
    • The asthma hospitalization rate among children (ages 0-17) is no more than 17.3 per 10,000. Baseline: 34.1 per 10,000, SPARCS, 2003-2005 (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
  • By the year 2013, reduce the work-related hospitalization rate for employed New Yorkers to no more than 11.5 per 10,000 employees. Baseline: 15.3 per 10,000 employed aged 16+, SPARCS, 2003-2005.(Healthy People 2010 Goal not available - twenty-five percent reduction from 2003-05 baseline.)