A health issue in a geographic area in NYC and provide your rationale for this selection;

Identify a health issue in a geographic area in NYC and provide your rationale for this selection; 

(ii) Navigate health information 3a-3g above related to this issue;

Click on:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/index.page

Click on “Data”

Click on “Community Health Profiles”

a. Select  a community / neighborhood by zip code

b. Click “Who we are”, then Social and Economic Conditions”

Note any important information under this category

Then choose “economic stress”

Note any important information

c. Then choose “Housing and Neighborhood Conditions”

Click choose “Housing quality”

Note any important information under this category

d. Then choose “Maternal and Child Health “

Click “Child health”

Note any important information in this category

e. Choose “Healthy Living”

f. Choose “Health Care”

Choose, “Access to care and Avoidable Hospitalizations”

Note any important information under 3e. and f.

g. Choose “Health Outcomes”,

Then choose “Chronic Conditions”

Note any important information in this category

(iii) Based on your findings in 3a-3g, describe any a. social, b. economic, c. cultural /ethnic and d. any other determinants associated with this health concern;  

(iv)  If given the opportunity how would you exert leadership as a pharmacist / health care professional to make the situation better?