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3. Health resources: Answer majority of questions below for community Brooklyn, New York Kings county

• Do you notice any hospitals? What kind are they? Where are they located?

• Are there any clinics? Whom do they serve? Are there any family planning services?

• Are there doctors’ and dentists’ offices? Are they specialists or generalists?

• Do you notice any nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, mental health clinics, alcohol or drug treatment centers, homeless or abused shelters, wellness clinics, health department facilities, urgent care centers, mobile health vehicles, blood donation centers, or pharmacies?

• Are these resources appropriate and sufficient to address the kinds of problems that exist in this community?

4. Environmental conditions related to health: Answer majority of questions below for community Brooklyn, New York Kings county

• Do you see evidence of anything that might make you suspicious of ground, water, or air pollutants?

• What is the sanitary condition of the housing? Is housing overcrowded, dirty, or in need of repair? Are windows screened?

• What is the condition of the roads? Are potholes present? Are drainage systems in place? Are there low water crossings, and do they have warning signals? Are there adequate traffic lights, signs, sidewalks, and curbs? Are railroad crossings fitted with warnings and barriers? Are streets and parking lots well lit? Is this a heavily trafficked area, or are roads rural? Are there curves or features that make the roads hazardous?

• Is there handicapped access to buildings, sidewalks, and streets?

• Do you observe recreational facilities and playgrounds? Are they being used? Is there a YMCA/YWCA or community center? Are there any day care facilities or preschools?

• Do you see any restaurants?

• Is food sold on the streets? Are people eating in public areas? Are there trash receptacles and places for people to sit? Are public restrooms available?

• What evidence of any nuisances such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, or rodents do you observe? Are there stray animals wandering in the neighborhood?

5. Social functioning: Answer majority of questions below for community Brooklyn, New York Kings county

• Do you observe any families in the neighborhoods? Can you observe their structure or functioning? Who is caring for the children? What kind of supervision do they have? Is more than one generation present?

• Are there any identifiable subgroups related to one another either socially or geographically?

• What evidence of a sense of neighborliness can you observe?

• What evidence of community cohesiveness can you observe? Are there any group efforts in the neighborhood to improve the living conditions or the neighborhood? Is there a neighborhood watch? Do community groups post signs for neighborhood meetings?

• How many and what type of churches, synagogues, and other places of worship are there?

• Can you observe anything that would make you suspicious of social problems, such as gang activity, juvenile delinquency, drug or alcohol abuse, and adolescent pregnancy?

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3,Health resourses:
**yes there is a hospitals:
-northwell health-gohealth urgent care(4.5miles away from new york community hospitals
-Quality first urgent care(1.5 miles away from new york community hospitals)
**yes there is a clinics:
   They serve for children,older adults,maternity women,psychologic conditions,dental health,substance abuse patients,neurological patient,orthopedic,rehabilitation center..there is a special services available for STd/HIv prevention.
Cabs center-brooklyn and caribean house health center-brooklyn: they serve for prenatal and post-natal care there is family planning services available..
**yes there is a doctors and dentists offices available..they are dentists ans cosmetic dentistry..Astoria dental group there is dentists,implant dentistry,dental clinics avalible..
Help psi brroklyn health center for mental health,substance abuse,dental care and there is multi service available in community brooklyn..
** from the community perspective,the costs insured-in both time and money for getting medical treatment it was problematic and acts as a barrier for lowincome populations to effectively use prevention and disease mangement services..people with low income they are unqualiuty for medicaid and premiums of the insurance offered through the health exchange..new york city department of health and mental hygeine and newyork city district public health office,special focus on maternal child health and obesity prevention and new center for health equity focus on reducing health disparities citywide..
4,There will be high dirty and untidy poluution and dissatisfaction with garbage disposal,and more noise and light pollution and moderate air quality..