Statistics: Type two diabetes are on the rise in New York City. Currently, the percentage of diabetics in New York City is one third higher than the national average. Approximately 650,000 New Yorker suffer from type two diabetes, a number that has increased rapidly in the past decade.
Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are more likely to develop diabetes and poor New Yorkers of all races are more susceptible to the disease.
What the City has done:
1) Research
Poor health is concentrated in certain New York City neighborhoods.
2) Policy
How can we characterize this approach?
Individual behavior, individual choices and increasing options for purchasing healthy foods and restricting the sale or use of unhealthy foods.
What hasn’t the city done?
Poverty rates are also higher in New York City than in the nation as a whole.
