Cataloging the Bloomberg era: New York City legislation relevant to cardiovascular risk factors

Rhodes-Bratton, Brennan; Fingerhut, Lori; Demmer, Ryan T.; Colgrove, James; Wang, Y. Claire; Lovasi, Gina S.

doi:10.1080/23748834.2018.1455564

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“…Between 2003 and 2011, the city introduced legislation to address multiple emissions sources, including heating oils, city vehicles, buses, trucks, and taxicabs. 4 Since the start of data collection in 2008–2009, the New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS) has documented meaningful reductions in the concentrations of several key air pollutants in the city, 5 which may be partially attributable to these policies.…”

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Development and validation of a method to quantify benefits of clean-air taxi legislation

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Kioumourtzoglou

Treat

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J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Air pollution from motor vehicle traffic remains a significant threat to public health. Using taxi inspection and trip data, we assessed changes in New York City’s taxi fleet following Clean Air Taxi legislation enacted in 2005–2006. Inspection and trip data between 2004–2015 were used to assess changes in New York’s taxi fleet and to estimate and spatially apportion annual taxi-related exhaust emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and total particulate matter (PM T ). These emissions changes were used to predict reductions in NO and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentrations estimates using data from the New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS) in 2009–2015. Efficiency trends among other for-hire vehicles and spatial variation in traffic intensity were also considered. The city fuel efficiency of the medallion taxi fleet increased from 15.7 MPG to 33.1 MPG, and corresponding NO and PM T exhaust emissions estimates declined by 82% and 49%, respectively. These emissions reductions were associated with changes in NYCCAS-modeled NO and PM 2.5 concentrations (p<0.001). New York’s clean air taxi legislation was effective at increasing fuel efficiency of the medallion taxi fleet, and reductions in estimated taxi emissions were associated with decreases in NO and PM 2.5 concentrations.

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Development and validation of a method to quantify benefits of clean-air taxi legislation

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J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Promoting social justice in the capitalist academy? Health equity and the Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medvedyuk,

Raphael

2024

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The past two decades have seen increasing mentions of health equity and the importance of addressing the social determinants of health in USA public health statements. Yet, there is little uptake of these concepts into USA public policy. We see this, in part, as being due to the unwillingness of the USA public health community – including its network of Masters of Public Health Programs – to address the fundamental cause of health inequities: the United States’ capitalist economic system which skews the distribution of the social determinants of health in favour of the wealthy and powerful. We illustrate this reluctance by examining how the Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University conceptualises the promotion of health equity through its International Declaration of Health Rights. Nothing in the Declaration considers how the economic system threatens health yet it is presented as a model for public health education. We review its shortcomings and show how revision to it is unlikely since the School is endowed by its namesake billionaire Michael Bloomberg who has denounced any attempts at redistributing wealth and income in the service of public health. Evidence of how public health messaging is already shaped by powerful economic interests embedded within the United States’ capitalist system substantiates concerns that have been raised about such branding and its effects on public health discourse and action.

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Cataloging the Bloomberg era: New York City legislation relevant to cardiovascular risk factors

Cited by 2 publications

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Development and validation of a method to quantify benefits of clean-air taxi legislation

Development and validation of a method to quantify benefits of clean-air taxi legislation

Promoting social justice in the capitalist academy? Health equity and the Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg School of Public Health

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