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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Best Practices for Heart Disease and Stroke: A Guide to Effective Approaches and Strategies

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Non-Systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: February 2023

Workgroups: Heart Disease and Stroke Workgroup

This best practices guide includes 18 evidence-based strategies that translate scientific evidence into actions state and local health departments, public health professionals, clinicians, and other decision makers can take to address heart disease and stroke. The guide highlights the public health, economic, and health equity impacts of each strategy and provides resources to support and guide strategy implementation. Brief examples highlight specific settings where these strategies have been implemented successfully.

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Objectives related to this resource (7)

Reduce coronary heart disease deaths — HDS‑02
Improving
Reduce stroke deaths — HDS‑03
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of adults with high blood pressure — HDS‑04
Baseline only
Increase control of high blood pressure in adults — HDS‑05
LHI label
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of adult heart attack survivors who are referred to a rehabilitation program — HDS‑D03
Developmental
Increase the rate of bystander CPR for non-traumatic cardiac arrests — PREP‑01
Improving
Increase the rate of bystander AED use for non-traumatic cardiac arrests in public places — PREP‑02
Improving

Suggested Citation

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Best Practices for Heart Disease and Stroke: A Guide to Effective Approaches and Strategies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2022. doi:10.15620/cdc:122290