Health Department Releases Bronx Community Health Profiles

The Community Health Profiles highlight inequity and encourage community engagement: they are comprehensive reports of neighborhood health, looking at 42 health and non-health indicators

The Health Department today released its Bronx Community Health Profiles, detailing the health of all 12 community districts in the borough. Each Profile outlines the health of a Bronx community district using indicators of neighborhood conditions, social and economic conditions, healthy living, health care, and health outcomes. This year, to create a broader picture of neighborhood wellbeing, the agency added non-traditional health indicators to the Profiles, such as housing quality, the number of tobacco retailers per 10,000 people, and the supermarket square footage per 100 people. For all of the indicators, the Community Health Profiles offers a contrast between high and low performing community districts, the borough, and the city as a whole. Overall, the Profiles reveal that while there are many neighborhoods in very good health, there are significant health inequities that persist in Bronx neighborhoods: for example, in Morrisania and Crotona, death rates due to drug use, homicide, and HIV more than twice the city rates. The profiles were released at the Bronx Borough Service Cabinet meeting. The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Profiles can be found at nyc.gov/health. The complete set of 59 Community Health Profiles are available online at nyc.gov/doh.

Read the press release New York City Community Health Profiles