Health

Health in Bushwick is not good and is not bad looking at these two maps you can see the asthma rate in bushwick is pretty high to do trucks ideling on front of schools or grocery stores where people are located which cause kids and adults to catch asthma. Additionally obesity rates are high because of all the fast foods restaurants that we have in bushwick people dont waste time cooking when they could go to a restaurants and get there food for lest than 10 minutes thats why we have lazy people and this is why bushwick is like this.

The 2003 DOHMH community health profile for Bushwick/Williamsburg indicated that, in general, the //residents have a “heavy burden of illness and mortality.” In five out of six indicators, Bushwick/// Williamsburg was rated below average as compared to 41 other New York City neighborhoods. These //factors include general health, maternal and child health, infectious diseases (including pneumonia,//influenza, HIV/AIDS), chronic diseases (including heart disease, diabetes, lung disease), and access //to medical care. Health care in Bushwick/Williamsburg is rated more difficult overall to access than in the//  rest of New York City. And when asked to rate their own health, one in three Bushwick/Williamsburg //residents (32%) stated their health was “poor” or “fair,” as compared to an overall New York City// average of 19%. How people rate their own health often indicates the overall health of a community. In //addition, research conducted by the Immigrant Child He// New York City were twice as likely as citizens not to have health care coverage, more than two and a half //times more likely to report being in fair or poor health condition, and three times more likely not to have//


 * 1) //usual or consistent source of health care services.//

from [|Enhancing Health in Bushwick]

"The residents of Bushwick are experiencing a health crisis – one that has significant costs related to//hospital care and lost days of work and school and exacts a physical and emotional toll that cannot be////quantified. A 2003 NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) study indicates that the////residents of Bushwick and Williamsburg1 have a “heavy burden of illness and mortality.” Bushwick/////Williamsburg was rated below average as compared to 41 other New York City neighborhoods in five of////the six indicators used (general health, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, chronic diseases,////and access to medical care). Further, hospitalization and death rates are higher in Bushwick/////Williamsburg than in New York City as a whole".// from [|Enhancing Health in Bushwick]

What are some health problems here in Bushwick? How are they related to the Envirionment? How are they related to food choices? Mostly maps, with some quotes and photos.

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Obesity -DOHMH research shows that one in three children (31%) in Bushwickis obese, compared to a citywide average of 24%. Diabetes -In Bushwick/Williamsburg, 15% of adults are affected with diabetes, compared to the citywide average of only 8%, and the rate of hospitalization related to diabetes is three times greater than the citywide average. //Asthma // - While six out of every 1,000 children are affected by severe asthma citywide, ten are affected in Bushwick/Williamsburg. //Mental Health // - Approximately 2,000 Bushwick youth between the ages of nine and seventeen – about 10% of the Bushwick residents in that age range – were diagnosed as seriously emotionally disturbed (SED)4 in 2003, and yet only three outpatient mental health service providers serve Bushwick children

HEALTH IN BUSHWICK...BY ALTASIA L. 1. Obesity and overweight are common in residents of all ages in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick.• More than 1 in 4 children in Head Start programs and public elementary schools is obese,and more than 4 in 10 are overweight or obese.• About 1 in 6 public high school students is obese, and more than 1 in 3 is overweightor obese. • More than 1 in 4 adults is obese, and more than 6 in 10 are overweight or obese. 2. The obesity problem in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick is part ofan epidemic affecting all of Brooklyn, New York City, and the nation.• The prevalence of obesity among preschool children in Head Start and public elementaryschool children is similar in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick and New York City overall.• The prevalence of obesity among public high school students and adults, however, is higher in these Brooklyn neighborhoods than in the city as a whole. altasia lewis