Heart Disease Resources
Online Resources
Interactive Maps
CDC's interactive maps present heart disease and stroke mortality rates,
county–by–county, for the state, selected racial/ethnic group, and gender of your
choice. Go to the
Interactive State Maps.
Heart Disease and Stroke Legislative
Database and Mapping Application
Search for state–level bills related to heart disease and stroke prevention
topics. Users of the database can also map the policies based on selected
criteria. This function allows the user to see a visual representation of
the policies nationwide with the ability to copy or print maps for other
uses.
CDCynergy Heart Disease
and Stroke Prevention Online Training Module
CDCynergy is an interactive training and decision-support tool.
It is designed to help CDC
staff and public health professionals systematically plan communication
programs within a health context. It allows users to assemble
the pieces of a health communication plan systematically by answering
questions in a specific sequence.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Estimates of the prevalence of self–reported risk factors for heart
disease and stroke by
state can be computed online from CDC's state–based
Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System.
FASTATS
The National Center for Health Statistics provides CDC's statistics on a
number of health topics from its national databases. See
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/.
Global Cardiovascular Infobase*
An interactive Web site featuring epidemiologic profiles of cardiovascular
and cerebrovascular diseases in the world.
G8 Telematics Project*
The G8 Promoting Heart Health initiative aims at disseminating best
practices for implementing cardiovascular disease preventive interventions.
*Links to non–Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.
Page last reviewed: March 28, 2008
Page last modified: March 28, 2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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