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Health in All Policies: Evolution in New York City's PlaNYC. Frontiers in Public Health Services and System Research.

Full Citation	February 2016 A “Health in All Policies” Evolution in New York City ’s PlaNYC Stephanie Noble and Kimberley R. Isett, Georgia Institute of Technology – Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research. Vol 5, # 1 Article 2 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=frontiersinphssr
	Where did/does the author/s work, what else has s/he written about, and what are her/his credentials?
		This is a funded study by Robert Wood Johnson. Kimberley R. Isett is an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on institutional dynamics in implementing government services, with a particular interest in the delivery of services to vulner- able populations. Increasingly, her work focuses on the use of evidence in decision making, both in policy and systems. Dr. Isett has been awarded just over $1 million in research grants and has worked with elected officials and policy makers at all levels of government. E-mail: isett@gatech.edu
What are the topics of the text?	Investigation of the extent to which health relevance and health outcomes are incorporated in city policies under the Bloomberg administration.
What are the main arguments of the text?	Under the Bloomberg administration, health relevance and outcomes became integrated in every policy implicitly and explicitly. Air quality had the most explicit health relevance and second most implicit statements. Health relevance and outcomes were most explicitly stated most directly stated in air quality policies than any other policy areas.
Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.	Authors conducted document analysis on 2007 PlaNYC report, 2011 PlaNYC update, and PlaNYC progress reports from 2008 to 2013. “explicit health relevance was operationalized as any passage justifying a policy with explicit connections linking the policy problem, health determinants, and the health of people.” “Implicit health relevance was operationalized as policy justifications relating to health determinants, but without explicit language connecting the policy to the health of people, rather it is implied.” “direct health outcomes were operationalized as p The results illustrate the feasibility of a comprehensive HiAP initiative and could provide inspiration and direction for other jurisdictions. olicy outcomes with explicit connections between the policy intervention, health determinants, and the health of people, and indirect health outcomes were operationalized as policy outcomes relating to health determinants, but without explicit connections to the health of people.”
What three (or more) quotes capture the message of the text?	“The analysis shows that New York City has stimulated attention to health outcomes in peer agencies implicitly more than explicitly, that the extent to which peer agencies reference health has increased over time, and that every policy area in PlaNYC has some stated health relevance and health outcomes. Further, New York City appears to have progressed from early to later stages in the maturity model, indicating embedded HiAP.” P. 7 “The results illustrate the feasibility of a comprehensive HiAP initiative and could provide inspiration and direction for other jurisdictions.”
What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of environmental health governance?	Follow up on 2 referenced documents: 1. ICLEI. The process behind PlaNYC: How the city of New York developed its comprehensive long-term sustainability plan. ICLEI; Local Governments for Sustainability USA and The Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, City of New York, 2010. 2. Storm I, Harting J, Stronks K, Schuit AJ. Measuring stages of health in all policies on a local level: The applicability of a maturity model. Health Policy 2014;114(2–3):183–91. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.05.006. The second document is the methodology used in this study to measure “maturity” of Health in all policies frameworks in NY city.