Moving the needle on public health in the Bronx.

PUBLIC health; ADOLESCENT health; STEPHENS, Daniel; GRANTS in aid (Public finance); SOCIOECONOMIC factors; ROBERT Wood Johnson Foundation

NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)

The article focuses on the Bronx Union Community Health Center (UCHC) director for adolescent medicine Dr. Daniel Stephens improving the health of New York City teenagers. Topics covered include state grant funding for UCHC that has been ranked last in the 62-county measure of health outcomes based on socioeconomic factors by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also mentioned is Stephens seeing patients five days a week while supporting programs at the Teen Health Center.