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A
Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
Introduction
The purpose of the plan:
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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.
Heart disease and stroke
are among the nation's leading causes of death and major causes of
disability, and these conditions can be expected to increase sharply as this
country's "baby boom" generation ages. Yet these conditions are largely
preventable. As expressed in the Steps to a HealthierUS initiative
from Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson, the long–term
solution for our nation's health care crisis requires embracing prevention
as the first step. To reverse the epidemic of heart disease and stroke
through increasingly effective prevention, action is needed now.
A Public Health Action
Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke addresses this urgent need for
action. Key partners, public health experts, and heart disease and stroke
prevention specialists came together to develop targeted recommendations and
specific action steps toward achievement of this goal, through a process
convened by CDC and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
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Contributing Partners
The special contributions
of the following partners to development of A Public Health Action Plan
to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke, through representation in the
Working Group or Expert Panels, is gratefully acknowledged:
- American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association
- Association of State
and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- Association of State
and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education
(ASTDHPPHE), ASTHO
- Cardiovascular Health
Council, Chronic Disease Directors, ASTHO
- Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS)
- Chronic Disease
Directors (CDD), ASTHO
- Health Canada
- Heart and Stroke
Foundation of Canada
- International Stroke
Society
- National Association of
County and City Health Officials
- National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), HHS
- National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS
- National Stroke
Association
- Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health and Science, HHS
- Prevention Research
Centers Program, CDC, HHS
- World Health
Organization
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Errata: A correction has been made since printing the current version of A
Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke.
On Appendix page C-6, the sentence should read—
CDC's Active Community Environments Initiative (ACES) works with partners
to promote the development of accessible recreation facilities, including
more opportunities for walking and cycling.
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A Public
Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke: Executive
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Page last reviewed: August 19, 2008
Page last modified: August 19, 2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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