Why These 10?
The heart of the Take Care New York health policy initiative is setting an agenda of 10 key areas for intervention. These areas have been selected because they represent health problems that:
- • Present a large disease burden, with thousands
of preventable deaths and hundreds of thousands of preventable illnesses or
disabilities each year.
- • Are amenable to intervention - we can do
something about these problems through clinical intervention as well as
through social and behavioral action.
- • Require multi-agency, public-private partnerships to be most effectively addressed.
