Overview of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s COVID-19 Equity Action Plan
Title
Overview of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s COVID-19 Equity Action Plan
Creator
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Description
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is implementing an Equity Action Plan to advance equitable policies and practices in the City’s COVID-19 response. The plan uses focused messaging and increased engagement with community and health care partners in neighborhoods with a disproportionate burden of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. We recognize that underinvestment in these neighborhoods and structural racism are risk factors for COVID-19...
