Tag: Asthma
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10030 and 10029 Hit Hard By Canadian Forest Fire Smoke
The New York City ZIP codes with the highest numbers of asthma-related emergency room visits during last week’s smoke haze were disproportionately in low-income, predominantly Black and Hispanic communities, according to an analysis of local health department and Census data by Gothamist. The foul air from Canada’s wildfires was bad all over, but the impact…
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125th Street Redesign
Transportation Alternatives is floating an idea on how to address the endemic double parking on 125th Street that effectively blocks bus traffic, forcing busses to veer into traffic lanes, causing more congestion and slowdowns. The proposal is to take the bus lanes which are located on the edges of the street, and instead put them…
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Asthma+Poverty
Throughout the city, neighborhoods with higher rates of poverty also experience higher rates of childhood asthma, which we can see from the rates of emergency department visits. On the scatter plot below, each dot represents one neighborhood. Its horizontal position represents the neighborhood’s poverty rate, and its vertical position represents its asthma rate. The pattern…
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Asthma Prevalence – Adults
How Calculated: Estimated number of adults aged 18 years and older who reported medically diagnosed asthma with symptoms in the last 12 months, divided by all adults and adjusted for age; expressed as percent. Source: New York City Community Health Survey (CHS) Asthma Prevalence – Children ever diagnosed with asthma (ages 0-13 years) How Calculated: Estimated number…
