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Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free: A Social Environment
Handbook
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Chapter Eleven: 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:
- Effective communication
- Strategic leadership, partnership, and organization
- Taking action
- Strengthening capacity
- Evaluating impact
- Advancing knowledge through prevention research
- Engaging in regional and global partnerships
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.
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,
Social Determinants
Prevention Works
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
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