Announcements

General Announcements

• NEW!  2008 Atlas of Stroke Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries
  The newest atlas in our series of six was developed in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and includes county-level maps of stroke hospitalizations by stroke-subtype, race/ethnicity, discharge status, and co-morbidity.
   
• 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.
   
• State Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program Evaluation Guides: Developing and Using a Logic Model, Developing and Using and Evaluation Plan, and Writing SMART Objectives.
   
• Heart Disease and Stroke Legislative Database
   
• CDC Announces the formation of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP).  See the press release.

CDC-Supported Conferences

25th Annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Conference
March 15–19, 2008
Florida Hotel and Conference Center
Orlando, FL
For more information: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/conference/index.htm

6th National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
March 26–28, 2008
The Marvin Center, George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Registration information available beginning January 1, 2008 at http://www.6thnationalforum.com

Publications

Place of Death After Stroke—United States, 1999–2002
MMWR, published May 2006

Men and Heart Disease Fact Sheet

Women and Heart Disease Fact Sheet

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

Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke Among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Trends in Cholesterol Screening and Awareness of High Blood Cholesterol—United States, 1991–2003
MMWR, published September 6, 2005

Page last reviewed: March 28, 2008
Page last modified: March 28, 2008

Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion