Achieving a Heart-Healthy and
Stroke-Free Nation

Resources

• Web Resources
  
  
• Partnerships, Alliances, and Coalitions
  
  
• Surveillance and Research
  
  
• Print Resources

Web Resources
Communications and Health Promotion
University of Kansas’s Community Toolbox.
ctb.lsi.ukans.edu. Provides information on how to develop, manage, and evaluate community projects; includes tools and helpful hints.

HealthComm KEY.
www.cdc.gov/od/oc/hcomm/additsource.pdf. Provides communications resources.

CDCynergy.
www.cdc.gov/cdcynergy/. Provides an interactive CD-ROM designed as a decision-making tool and step-by-step guide for planning health communications programs. Contact the CDC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program for the CVH version.

Social Marketing
www.social-marketing.com/. Provides information on social marketing publications and the latest news in the field.

Evaluation
www.cdc.gov/eval/resources.htm. Provides CDC evaluation resources, including logic models, evaluation standards, organizations, and evaluation concept documents.

University of Kansas’s Community Toolbox, Evaluation Model.
ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/section_1007.htm. Provides a model for evaluating comprehensive community initiatives.

Success Measures Guidebook.
www.developmentleadership.net/smp/manual/toc.htm. Provides a step-by-step guide for developing and implementing an evaluation plan and specific outcome indicators to help define success and effective allocation of resources.

Funding
University of Kansas’s Community Toolbox, Grant Writing Tools.
ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/en/chapter_1042.htm. Provides information on how to apply and receive grants and other financial resources.

The Foundation Center.
fdncenter.org. Provides the foundation’s annual reports, directories, books, and periodicals on fundraising, program planning, and current data on the nation’s largest funders.

Interventions and Program Development
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
www.cdc.gov/cvh. Provides information on heart disease, stroke, and state activities, including state program contacts.

Health Policy Coach.
www.policymatters.org. Provides tools, strategies, and information for creating policy change in communities.

Health Disparity Collaboratives.
bphc.hrsa.gov/programs/hdcprograminfo.htm. Provides information on interventions in federally qualified health centers to improve health outcomes, including management of CVD, in underserved populations.

Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: School Health Policy Guide.
www.nasbe.org/healthyschools/fithealthy.mgi. Provides direction on establishing an overall policy framework for school health programs and specific policies on physical activity, healthy eating, and tobacco-use prevention.

Get With the Guidelines.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml? identifier=1165. Provides a hospital-based CVD quality improvement program.

G8 Promoting Heart Health Telematics Project.
www.med.mun.ca/g8hearthealth. Provides a qualitative database of best practices for CVH programs; includes heart health issues such as tobacco control, diet, physical activity, psychosocial factors, hypertension, diabetes, and lipid management.

American Dietetic Association.
www.eatright.org. Provides grassroots tools for food and nutrition policy.

Public Education Network: Communities at Work.
www.publiceducation.org. Provides a guidebook of strategic interventions for engaging the community in school improvement to create systemic change through community dialogue, constituency building, engagement of practitioners, collaboration with districts, policy analysis, and legal strategies.

Turning Point Publications and Resources.
www.wkkf.org/Programming/Resources.aspx?CID=8. Provides a variety of publications and resources produced by Turning Point (national initiative of the W.K. Kellogg and Robert Wood Johnson foundations) that provide actionable, evidence-based lessons for policy, practice, and research.

Center for Livable Communities.
www.lgc.org/center/. Provides resources on building livable communities, including selected publications, manuals, conferences/trainings, and a land-use resource library.

National Committee for Quality Assurance.
www.ncqa.org. Provides resources such as The Business Case for Health Care Quality and The State of Managed Care Quality, 2001.

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Partnerships, Alliances, and Coalitions
University of Kansas’s Community Toolbox, Community Work Station.
ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/CWS/coalitionbuilding/create_maintain_coalitions.htm. Provides information on establishing and maintaining partnerships, including coalitions.

Collaboration: What Makes it Work.
www.wilder.org/pubs/collab_wmiw/index.html. Provides a review of research literature on factors influencing successful collaboration among service delivery agencies.

Building Community Health Partnerships.
www.communityhealthpartners.org/. Provides information on successful community health partnership models.

Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities.
www.healthycommunities.org/usa/index.cfm. Provides information on a collaborative established to improve the quality of life in communities through community-based development and coalition building.

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Surveillance and Research
National Center for Health Statistics.
www.cdc.gov/nchs. Provides data systems on vital events, health status, lifestyle, exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
www.cms.gov. Provides CVD-related data and statistics.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/index.htm. Provides scientific resources on heart disease.

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
www.americanheart.org. Provides scientific resources on heart disease and stroke.

CDC CVH Statistical Information.
http://www.cdc.gov/cvh/library/statisticalinfo.htm. Provides data such as interactive maps on county-specific heart disease mortality rates by state, racial/ethnic group, and sex.

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Print Resources
Schmid TL, Pratt M, Howze E. Policy as intervention: environmental and policy approaches to the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Am J Public Health 1995;85:1207-11.

Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine. The Future of Public Health. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1988.

Sallis JF, Owen N. Ecological models. In: Glanz K, Lewis FM, Rimer BK, editors. Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997:403-24.

North Carolina Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force. North Carolina Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke 1999–2003. North Carolina: North Carolina Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force 1999;15-16.

Casper ML, Barnett E, Halverson JA, et al. Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality. 2nd ed. Morgantown, WV: Office for Social Environment and Health Research, West Virginia University, 1999. Available at www.cdc.gov/cvh.

Barnett E, Casper ML, Halverson JA, et al. Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality. 1st ed. Morgantown, WV: Office for Social Environment and Health Research, West Virginia University, 2001. Available at www.cdc.gov/cvh.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Policy and Environmental Change: New Directions for Public Health. Atlanta, GA: Department of Health and Human Services, 2001.

Department of Health and Human Services. Third Report of the Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). Bethesda, MD: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 2001. NIH publication no. 01-3670.

Department of Health and Human Services. The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Bethesda, MD: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 1997. NIH publication no. 98-1080.

Mittlemark MB, Hunt MK, Heath GW, Schmid TL. Realistic outcomes: lessons from community-based research and demonstration programs for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. J Public Health Policy 1993;14(4):437-62.

Gerber JC, Stewart DL. Prevention and control of hypertension and diabetes in an underserved population through community outreach and disease management: a plan of action. J Assoc Acad Minor Phys 1998;9(3):48-52.

Shediac-Rizhallah MC, Bone LR. Planning for the sustainability of community-based health programs: conceptual frameworks and future directions for research practice and policy. Health Educ Res 1998;13(1):87-108.

Sorensen G, Emmons K, Hunt MK, Johnston D. Implications of the results of community intervention trials. Public Health 1998;19:379-416.

Golaszewski T, Fisher B. Heart check: the development and evolution of an organizational heart health assessment. Am J Health Promot 2002;17(2):132-53.

Golaszewski T, Barr D, Cochran S. An organization-based intervention to improve support for employee heart health. Am J Health Promot 1998;13(1):26-35.

McKinlay JB. The promotion of health through planned sociopolitical challenges for research and policy. Soc Sci Med 1993;36(2):109-17.

Goldman L, Phillips KA, Coxson P, et al. The effect of risk factor reductions between 1981 and 1990 on coronary heart disease incidence, prevalence, mortality and cost. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;38(4):1012-7.

Druss B, Marcus SC, Olfson M, Taneilian T, Elinson L, Pincusl HA. Comparing the national economic burden of five chronic conditions. Health Affairs 2001;20(6):233-40.

Galvin R, Milstein A. Large employers’ new strategies in health care. N Eng J Med 2002;347(12):939-41.

Tu K, Davis D. Can we alter physician behavior by educational methods? Lessons learned from studies of the management and follow-up of hypertension. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2002;22:11-22.

Stroebel RJ, Broers JK, Houle SK, et al. Improving hypertension control: a team approach in a primary care setting. J Qual Improvement 1997;26(11):623.

Pronk NP, O’Connor PJ. Systems approach to population health improvement. J Ambulatory Care Management 1997;20(4):24-31.

Bodenheimer T, Wagner EH, Grumbach K. Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness. JAMA 2002;228(14):1775-9.

Bodenheimer T, Wagner EH, Grumbach K. Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness: the chronic care model, part 2. JAMA 2002;288(15):1909-14.

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