Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free: A Social Environment Handbook

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Chapter Eleven: Heart Disease and Stroke Resources

Chapters Introduction Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Preventive and Medical Services Chapter 3: Heart-Healthy Living Chapter 4: Quality of Life Chapter 5: Direct Observations and Windshield Surveys Chapter 6: Photography and Videography Chapter 7: Key Informant Interviews Chapter 8: Library Resources and Newspapers Chapter 9: Searching the Internet Chapter 10: Worksheets Chapter 11: Heart Disease and Stroke Resources

Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke

The purpose of the Action Plan is “to chart a course for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and collaborating public health agencies, with all interested partners and the public at large, to help in promoting achievement of national goals for preventing heart disease and stroke over the next two decades.” This document covers seven action areas:

1. Effective communication
2. Strategic leadership, partnership, and organization
3.  Taking action
4. Strengthening capacity
5. Evaluating impact
6. Advancing knowledge through prevention research
7. Engaging in regional and global partnerships

• A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
• Translating the Plan into Action

Communication Guide

• Taking Action for Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free States: A Communication Guide for Policy and Environmental Change
• Stroke Addendum to A Communication Guide

Business Strategies

Learn about successful business strategies for preventing heart disease and stroke, including recognizing costs, discovering savings, working with the employee health plan, and learning from other employers.

• Reducing Heart Disease and Stroke: A Six-Step Guide for Empoyers
• Successful Business Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke: Toolkit Guide
   

Moving Into Action

This series, published by CDC, can help policy makers, employers and health care leaders assess what actions are most appropriate for their communities and can lend support to the efforts of individuals to prevent, manage, and control their risks for heart disease and stroke.

You can order free copies of any of the publications listed below by e-mailing cdcinfo@cdc.gov, or by completing a form on the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke's Web site,

• Moving Into Action: Promoting Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free Communities for Governors
• Moving Into Action: Promoting Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free Communities for State Legislators
• Moving Into Action: Promoting Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free Communities for Local Officials
• Moving Into Action: Promoting Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free Communities for Employers
• Moving Into Action: Promoting Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free Communities for Health Care Leaders
   

Social Determinants

• Dataset Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level
   

Prevention Works

• Prevention Works: CDC Strategies for a Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free America
   

State Programs

CDC’s State Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program currently funds 32 states to conduct prevention activities at the state and local levels, with a special focus on education, policy, and environmental systems. At this Web site, there are links to each state program, including a detailed description of each state’s activities.
 

State Legislative Database

Search for state-level bills related to heart disease and stroke prevention topics and create maps of state variations in heart disease and stroke variations in heart disease and stroke legislation in this interactive database maintained by CDC.

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Date last reviewed: 08/29/2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion