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State Program: California
Capacity Building
In 2007, the California Department of Health Services received CDC
funds to support a state heart disease and stroke prevention program.
Burden of Heart Disease and Stroke
- According to Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey results in 2005, adults in California
reported the following risk factors for heart disease and stroke:
- 25.7% had high blood pressure
- 35.2% of those screened reported having high blood cholesterol
In 2006,
- In 2006, 8.2% had diabetes
- In 2006, 14.9% were current smokers
- In 2006, 58.8% were overweight or obese (Body
Mass Index greater than or equal to 25.0)
- In 2006, 23.0% reported no exercise in the prior 30 days
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate collaboration among public and private sector
partners, such as managed care organizations, health
insurers, federally funded health centers, businesses,
priority population organizations, and emergency response
agencies.
- Define the burden of heart disease and stroke and assess
existing population-based strategies for primary and
secondary prevention of heart disease and stroke within the
state.
- Develop and update a comprehensive state plan for heart
disease and stroke prevention with emphasis on heart-healthy
policies development, physical and social environments
change, and disparities elimination (e.g., based on
geography, gender, race or ethnicity, or socioeconomic
status).
- Identify culturally appropriate approaches to promote
heart disease and stroke prevention among racial, ethnic,
and other priority populations.
- Use population-based public health strategies to
increase public awareness of the signs and symptoms of heart
diseases and stroke, the urgency of early treatment for
heart disease and stroke,
and the need to call 9–1–1.
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State Highlights
- The California Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention program contracts
with the Health Information and Strategic Planning Section of California
Department of Health Services to conduct geographic information system
(GIS) surveillance mapping analyses of heart disease and stroke events
and disease trends. GIS enables the HDSP program to overlay geographic
areas with high rates of heart disease and stroke with the available clinical and community
resources. These analyses are being used to inform policy decisions
about the accessibility and use of limited resources.
- In May 2000, the California Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
program completed An Inventory of Policy and Environmental Approaches to
Cardiovascular Disease Reduction. This inventory, which was shared with
local stakeholders, outlined policy and environmental strategies related
to smoking, physical activity, and poor nutrition that have been
implemented in California. In 2006, the policy inventory was redesigned
and updated to include legislation and policies that were passed in
subsequent years.
- California Department of Health Services, in partnership with the
University of Michigan and the Center for Health Improvement, is
conducting a three-year worksite demonstration project called “Step Up”.
This project implements work site physical and social environmental
changes and organizational policies to encourage healthy behaviors.
To view county–level data, visit our interactive map site at
http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/library/maps/statemaps.htm.
For more information on the California Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention program, visit
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/cdic/chdsp/default.htm.
Also see the California of Health Services Web site at
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/.
Page last reviewed: August 23, 2007
Page last modified: August 23, 2007
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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