Publications

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Atlases of Heart Disease and Stroke

• NEW:  2008 Atlas of Stroke Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries
  Stroke is a major public health issue with direct costs for care estimated at $41.6 billion and indirect costs in terms of lost productivity from either illness or death estimated at an additional $21.1 billion for 2007.
   
• Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
  Among American Indians and Alaska Natives, heart disease and stroke are the first and sixth leading causes of death.
   
• The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
  An estimated 17 million people worldwide die of cardiovascular diseases, particularly heart attacks and strokes.

• The Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in the United States
  The third in a series of CDC atlases related to cardiovascular disease, published through a collaboration between CDC and West Virginia University.

• Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality

• Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality (Second Edition)

Burden of Heart Disease and Stroke

• Pulmonary Hypertension Surveillance—United States, 1980–2002
  MMWR Surveillance Summary, published November 2005

• Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level
  There is widespread interest in the role of social health determinants at the local level. The directory contains an extensive list of data sets that can be used to address these determinants.

• Selected Reprints from the MMWR, 1994–2004
  A collection of 75 reprints published from 1994 through 2004 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) related to heart disease and stroke.
   

Guidelines and Recommendations

• Indicators for Chronic Disease Surveillance, MMWR Reports and Recommendations September, 2004
   
• Markers of Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease: Application to Clinical and Public Health Practice. A Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association*  Published in the journal Circulation. 
   
• The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure from the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute Web site.
   
• Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III) from the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute Web site.
   
• Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Web site.
   
• Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
  This report brings together, for the first time, what has been learned about physical activity and health from decades of research.
   
• Surgeon General's Reports Related to Tobacco Use
  List of reports concerning smoking and health, including reports on tobacco use among ethnic groups and young people.
   
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005
  Dietary Guidelines for Americans is published jointly every 5 years by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
   
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
  An independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services.
   
• Guide to Community Preventive Services*
  The Community Guide summarizes what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease.
   

Public Health Programs

• Heart Disease Web Site
   
• Stroke Web Site
   
• A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage*
  This is an important resource on preventive services. Developed in collaboration with the National Business Group on Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Purchaser's Guide translates clinical guidelines and medical evidence, providing large employers with the information they need to select, define, and implement preventive medical benefits such as colorectal cancer screening and tobacco use treatment.
   
• Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke: Addressing the Nation's Leading Killers
  Among both men and women, and across all racial and ethnic groups, cardiovascular disease is our nation's leading killer. Approximately 960,000 Americans die of cardiovascular disease each year, accounting for more than 40% of all deaths.
   
• A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
  Purpose of the plan: 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—through 2020 and beyond.
   
• Moving into Action: Promoting Heart–Healthy and Stroke–Free Communities
  Moving into Action is a series of action items designed to help governors, state legislators, local officials, employers, and health care leaders promote heart–healthy and stroke–free communities.
   
• Prevention Works: CDC Strategies for a Heart–Healthy and Stroke–Free America
  This briefing document is intended to provide a snapshot of heart disease and stroke prevention at CDC.  It also provides information on the health and economic costs of chronic diseases to our nation and outlines CDC's prevention strategies.
   
• A Communication Guide for Policy and Environmental Change
  June 2004
   
• CDC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program Evaluation Framework
  June 2004
   

Other Publications

• NEW:  Fundamentals of Evaluating Partnerships Evaluation Guide
  The fourth in a series of evaluation guides, Fundamentals of Evaluating Partnerships is for State Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP) programs that are expected to identify, consult with, and appropriately involve multiple state partners in developing and implementing a comprehensive state plan and in developing strategies to leverage resources and coordinate interventions.
   
• NEW:  The Community Health Worker's Sourcebook: a Training Manual for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
  The sourcebook contains information and activities on heart disease and stroke and on the major risk factors for these diseases in adults. It also contains information on risk factors that begin in childhood. Additionally, it addresses people’s adherence to treatment and their communication with health care providers.
   
• Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free: A Social Environmental Handbook
  This handbook is a tool for everyone working to create heart-healthy and stroke-free communities across America. Health advocates are recognizing that creating and sustaining healthy communities requires fundamental social change that goes far beyond the individual patient education approach of many traditional public health programs.
   
• Successful Business Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke Toolkit
  This toolkit provides an ideal resource for state programs to collaborate with other chronic disease partners throughout the state in developing comprehensive CVH work site programs.
   
• Health Disparities: A Selected Bibliography
  Eliminating health disparities is an overarching goal of the Healthy People 2010 national public health agenda, and it is a top priority for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
   
• Law as a Tool for Preventing Chronic Diseases: Expanding the Range of Effective Public Health Strategies, Part 2
  Preventing Chronic Disease e–journal, April 2004
   
• Law as a Tool for Preventing Chronic Diseases: Expanding the Range of Effective Public Health Strategies, Part 1
  Preventing Chronic Disease e–journal, January 2004
   
• Policy and Environmental Indicators for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention: Data Sources in Two States
  Preventing Chronic Disease e–journal, April 2004

Statistical Resources

• Health United States, 2005
• Morbidity and Mortality Chartbook from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics from the American Heart Association*

Global Health Reports

From the World Health Organization*

• WHO's cardiovascular disease program*
• World Health Report*
• SuRF (Surveillance of Risk Factors) Report*
• Integrated Management of Cardiovascular Risk*
• Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion*

CDC has collaborated on several international heart health declarations. These are available as PDF files on Canada’s Heart Health Initiative* website.

Pan American Health Organization*

• Country Health Profiles*

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Page last reviewed: October 28, 2008
Page last modified: October 28, 2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion