Public Expenditures for the Mentally Ill in New York City

Redefining public health in New York City.

“If you want to live longer and healthier than the average American, come to New York City”, pronounced New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he released updated data on the city’s life expectancy last December. The numbers gave him reason to crow: from a nadir in 1990, when life expectancy in the city trailed the US average by 3 years, it had lengthened by 8 years to 80·6 years, surpassin...

Syndromic surveillance in public health practice, New York City.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has established a syndromic surveillance system that monitors emergency department visits to detect disease outbreaks early. Routinely collected chief complaint information is transmitted electronically to the health department daily and analyzed for temporal and spatial aberrations. Respiratory, fever, diarrhea, and vomiting are the key...

Projecting K-5 Enrollment in New York City Public Schools

We sought to use machine learning algorithms to predict K-5 school enrollment counts across census tracts and across years within Community District 20 in New York City. We used census data and historical counts as our input, and output enrollment count predictions for grades, census tracts and future years.

Diabetes in New York City.

The "New Look" in the Care of the Mentally Ill

The following article by S. W. Hardwick, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.M., has been compiled from views expressed in a report on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Law relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, prepared by the Group Medical Committee of the Darenth and Stone Hospital Management Committee, which administers a hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders and a Mental Deficiency ...