Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

Primary Navigation for the CDC Website

Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

On–line Resources

Five-Part Webcast on Economic Evaluation for States
This webcast series is designed to help you understand the value of economic evaluation and how to incorporate these methods into your programs. The five-part webcast will assist you in choosing the appropriate economic analysis for your heart disease and stroke prevention program or policy.

Roadmap for State Planning: A Systematic Approach to State Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs
The Roadmap is a Web-based resource for training and information to help build the competencies needed by state Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP) Program Coordinators. It provides suggested steps for carrying out requirements of the HDSP Program as well as easy online access to training, tools, and other resources needed for successful program development and implementation. The Roadmap offers information on four key areas of programmatic activities for developing and implementing a heart disease and stroke prevention program, including What to Do and How to Do It.

Interactive Maps
The interactive maps present heart disease and stroke mortality rates, county–by–county, for the state, racial/ethnic group, and gender of your choice. This application is produced through collaboration between the CDC and the states.

Heart Disease and Stroke Legislative Database and Mapping Application
Search for state–level bills related to heart disease and stroke prevention topics. Users of the database can also map the policies based on selected criteria. This function allows the user to see a visual representation of the policies nationwide with the ability to copy or print maps for other uses.

Maps of Social Determinants
Social determinants of health are factors in the social environment that contribute to or detract from the health of individuals and communities. CDC has developed a series of maps showing the trends in the United States of the different social determinants.

CDCynergy Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Online Training Module
CDCynergy is an interactive training and decision-support tool. It is designed to help CDC staff and public health professionals systematically plan communication programs within a health context. It allows users to assemble the pieces of a health communication plan systematically by answering questions in a specific sequence.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
The BRFSS, the world’s largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people.

FASTATS
The FASTATS site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.

Global Cardiovascular Infobase*
The mission of the Infobase is to help address the epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in the developing world by providing current and reliable information. Relevant data on demographics, mortality, morbidity, risk factors, and related health care are linked to country maps and can be displayed in a variety of ways.

G8 Telematics Project*
The G8 Promoting Heart Health initiative aims at disseminating best practices for implementation of cardiovascular disease preventive interventions.

Qualitative databases, searchable with a common protocol, are being established in collaborating centers to provide ready–access to "how to" aspects of implementation and link individuals and institutions concerned with the practice of CVD prevention. The databases serve to carry out research into the identification of good practices. It is intended that access to this information will reduce developmental costs and facilitate collaboration.

ProCor*
This moderated electronic conference is dedicated to the global cardiovascular epidemic, especially in developing countries and serves as a forum for dialogue and exchange of information.

*Links to non–Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.