HealthyNYC: Strategy Maps
The HealthyNYC strategy maps outline evidence-based strategies, sub-strategies, and activities that can contribute to achieving the 2030 HealthyNYC goals for addressing seven drivers of loss in life expectancy. Each sub-strategy shows the relevant stakeholder groups — including health systems and clinical providers, community supports, and policymakers and government agencies — best positioned to support each activity. We encourage institutions and HealthyNYC partners to use these strategy maps to inform their planning and maximize their contributions to the City’s HealthyNYC goals. Learn more about becoming a HealthyNYC partner.
These strategy maps reflect the input of subject matter experts in the Health Department as well as external partners. Each strategy map is a living document and will be updated as new research, initiatives, and interventions are identified.
- Strategy Map: Cardiometabolic Disease Management and Prevention (PDF)
- Strategy Map: COVID-19 (PDF)
- Strategy Map: Maternal Health (PDF)
- Strategy Map: Overdose Prevention (PDF)
- Strategy Map: Screenable Cancer Prevention (PDF)
- Strategy Map: Suicide Prevention (PDF)
- Strategy Map: Violence Prevention (PDF)
On Social Determinants of Health
Messaging around health and well-being often emphasizes an individual’s responsibility to make healthier choices. However, unhealthy behaviors have many drivers. These include systemic, environmental, and social factors. The food system, built environment, housing market, and health insurance market are intertwined with broader health and economic systems and structural factors such as systemic racism. These shape the environments and conditions that either inhibit or promote healthy behaviors.
Social determinants of health impact all seven of HealthyNYC’s drivers of loss in life expectancy. Strategies to address social determinants of health as a whole are not included in these strategy maps. Some strategy maps include activities that target specific social determinants of health. For example, the strategy map for cardiometabolic disease includes access to nutrition support, while the strategy map for overdose includes supportive housing. We encourage organizations, partners, and individuals to consider health equity and social determinants of health when planning or implementing these activities.
For resources to understand and address the racial and social injustices that impact health equity, visit NYC Health: Race to Justice. To view a detailed “Public Health Framework for Reducing Health Inequities” to guide equity transformations, visit the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative website.