CDC State Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs
CDC supports several public health efforts that address heart disease and stroke.
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- Since 1998, CDC has funded state health departments' efforts to reduce the number of people with heart disease or stroke.
- Health departments in 41 states and the District of Columbia currently receive funding.
- The program stresses policy and education to promote heart-healthy and stroke-free living and working conditions.
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- CDC funds stroke programs in 11 states (Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin) to monitor, promote, and improve the quality of acute stroke care.
- The registries’ data help hospitals close the gap between stroke care guidelines and practice.
- The long-term goal is to ensure that all Americans receive the highest quality stroke care available to reduce untimely deaths, prevent disability, and avoid recurrent strokes.
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- WISEWOMAN helps women with little or no health insurance reduce their risk for heart disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases.
- The program assists women age 40 to 64 in improving their diet, physical activity, and other behaviors. WISEWOMAN also provides cholesterol tests and other screening.
- The CDC funds 21 WISEWOMAN projects in 19 states and two tribal organizations.
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- CARES program seeks to save more lives from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- CARES strengthens collaboration between 9-1-1 centers, first responders, EMS agencies, and hospitals.
- CARES provides a simple, confidential, HIPPA-compliant process to assess patient outcomes.
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- In 2010, CDC launched the Sodium Reduction in Communities Program (SRCP) to help create healthier food environments and reduce sodium intake.
- Five sites received funding, including California (working with Shasta County), Los Angeles County, New York State ( working with Broome and Schenectady counties), Kansas (working with Shawnee County), and New York City.
- SRCP goals are to help create environments that support reducing sodium intake in communities and to expand public health efforts to implement sodium-related policies, surveillance, and evaluation.
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- This project builds capacity for public health professionals in state and local health departments to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for chronic disease surveillance and program development.
- The enhanced capacity provides health departments with a dynamic and powerful set of tools to efficiently and innovatively address existing chronic disease priorities.
- This is a collaborative project between CDC, the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, and the University of Michigan.
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