Guides

How to Promote Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in the Workplace: A Guide for Employers, Program Coordinators, and Health Benefit Designers
Employers from organizations of all sizes in all industries can use this CDC-developed guide to help plan, implement, and evaluate workplace health promotion programs aimed to prevent stroke and heart disease.

These guides cover a wide range of topics to help health professionals prevent and control heart disease and stroke in their communities.

• Addressing Chronic Disease through Community Health Workers: A Policy and Systems-Level Approach [PDF–715K]
  This resource provides evidence demonstrating the value and impact of CHWs in preventing and managing a variety of chronic diseases. In addition, this resource includes descriptions of chronic disease programs that are engaging CHWs, examples of state legislative action, and resources to build an integrated and sustainable CHW workforce.
• Community-Clinical Linkages for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases: A Practitioner’s Guide [PDF-1.7M]
  This guide is a resource for public health practitioners to define and facilitate community-clinical linkages.
• Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Action Guide [PDF-1M]
  Self-measured blood pressure monitoring plus additional clinical support is a strategy that can reduce the risk of disability or death from high blood pressure. The purpose of this guide is to help clinicians implement self-measured blood pressure monitoring in their practices by providing evidence-based action steps and resources.

These guides include resources and information for health professionals partnering with pharmacists as well as tools and strategies pharmacists can use to improve patient care.

• The Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process Approach: An Implementation Guide
  This implementation guide is for public health practitioners and health care professionals to help engage pharmacists in hypertension management through the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process. The Guide includes key examples from the Michigan Medicine Hypertension Pharmacists’ Program that health care teams can replicate in their own programs.
• Pharmacist-Provided Medication Therapy Management in Medicaid [PDF – 395 KB]
  This guide can help state health agencies and Medicaid stakeholders develop strategies to implement or expand pharmacist-provided medication therapy management (MTM). Implementing MTM can help improve care for Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic conditions, including cardiovascular disease (CVD).
• Collaborative Practice Agreements and Pharmacists’ Patient Care Services Resources
  This set of guides informs health care providers, decision-makers, insurers, and pharmacists about the role of pharmacists in team based care. The guides help put science into practice by including strategies and case examples of how pharmacists and other health care providers can better serve patients through collaborative practice agreements and collaborative drug therapy management.
  • For Nurses, Physician Assistants, and Other Providers [PDF-301K]
  • For Pharmacists [PDF-308K]
  • For Government and Private Payers [PDF-303K]
  • For Decision Makers [PDF-307K]
• Methods and Resources for Engaging Pharmacy Partners [PDF-765K]
  This publication provides public health departments with methods and resources they can use to engage pharmacy partners to enhance team-based care and form community-clinical linkages. It highlights methods that can be used to develop and expand partnerships between health departments and pharmacies, as well as complementary pharmacy resources.
• Using the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process to Manage High Blood Pressure: A Resource Guide for Pharmacists [PDF-633K]
  The Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process is a way to prevent and manage high blood pressure through team-based care. This guide provides information about current resources and emerging practices, as well as tools and examples that pharmacists can use to help improve health outcomes associated with cardiovascular disease.
• Creating Community-Clinical Linkages Between Community Pharmacists and Physicians: A Pharmacy Guide [PDF-1.1M]  |  High-Resolution [PDF-6.4M]
  This guide describes a framework for creating linkages between community pharmacists and physicians that benefit community collaborators and the patients they serve. This resource serves as a supplement to Community-Clinical Linkages for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases: A Practitioner’s Guide [PDF-1.6M].

CDC developed this series of five evaluation technical assistance tools to highlight evaluation strategies and successful examples.

• Evaluation Reporting: A Guide to Help Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings
• Developing and Using a Logic Model

These data resource guides cover a wide range of topic for the prevention and control of heart disease and stroke in communities.

• Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resource Guide for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs [PDF – 682 KB]
  This guide is an at-a-glance compilation of data sources useful for heart disease and stroke prevention programs conducting policy or data surveillance and/or evaluation. It is meant to be used by program managers and evaluators in the planning and evaluation stages of prevention programs.