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

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• Alternative Title:
  The Best Practices Guide for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention [2022]
• Personal Author:
  Shantharam, Sharada ; Andrade, Nancy ; Bhatt, Ami ; Bostic, Myles ; Chase, Alexandra ; Fulmer, Ericka ; Huang, Cindy ; Moeti, Refilwe ; Rasool, Aysha ; Schooley, Michael ; Scott, Amber ; White, Allison ; Williams, Cheryl A. ; Wilson, Cidney
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  The Best Practices Guide includes 18 evidence-based strategies, highlighting the public health, economic, and health equity impacts of each strategy. In addition, it provides information and resources to support and guide strategy implementation and policy and law related considerations. Brief stories highlight specific settings where these strategies have been successfully implemented.
  
  Executive Summary: Approximately 930,000 lives are lost each year to cardiovascular disease (CVD), costing the nation billions of dollars each year. State and local health department leaders, health workers, and policymakers recognize the mounting burdens of heart disease and stroke, and they have acted to mitigate these impacts through programs and policies. However, despite these efforts, system-based barriers still impede progress toward reducing complications, deaths, and costs associated with heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke continue to place hardships on the United States’ physical and economic health.
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention’s (DHDSP) mission is to “provide public health leadership to improve cardiovascular health for all, reduce the burden, and eliminate disparities associated with heart disease and stroke.” It advances these goals by addressing health equity, focusing on priority populations, and strategically engaging partners. DHDSP works with all 50 states and D.C. to improve cardiovascular health for all by providing technical assistance, funding opportunities, and publishing resources that guide or inform public health action. In addition to supporting state and local public health leaders, DHDSP develops resources for clinicians, community health workers, pharmacists, and other health workers who are critical to implementing heart disease and stroke prevention and management interventions. As part of their portfolio of work, the Best Practices Guide for Heart Disease and Stroke (formerly the Best Practices Guide for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Programs) is one of the many resources intended for the audiences mentioned above.
  
  Originally published in 2017, the Best Practices Guide for Heart Disease and Stroke aims to showcase evidence-based interventions that address the continuum of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, from preventing and/or controlling risk factors to addressing a patients’ health after experiencing a cardiac event. This second iteration of the Guide includes updated evidence reviews for the original eight strategies, along with adding new content to the Guide.
  
  The current Guide uses the same processes applied when developing the 2017 version. New strategies were identified through the recommendations of end users, funding recipients, evaluators, content subject matter experts, and program specialists and align with the priorities of DHDSP. Each selected strategy was vetted by a DHDSP work group, and evidence was reviewed by subject matter experts with in-depth knowledge of the proposed strategies, research methods, program delivery, and related evaluation findings.
  
  This publication describes the strength of evidence behind each strategy and the reported outcomes related to CVD prevention and management. It also highlights the public health and economic impacts of each strategy, including whether it improves health outcomes and health equity. In addition, it provides important issues related to the implementation of each strategy, including settings in which the strategies have been implemented, resources available to support implementation, and policy- and law-related considerations. Additionally, Best Practice in Action Stories highlight specific programs or initiatives where the strategies have been successfully implemented. Following the strategy descriptions, the publication includes a section for conducting evaluation which outlines the six steps featured in CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation that can be applied to all strategies.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cardiac Rehabilitation Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases / Prevention & Control Chronic Disease Community Health Services Community Health Workers Community Participation Community Pharmacy Services Decision Support Systems, Clinical Disease Management Evidence-Based Medicine Evidence-Based Practice Health Education Health Promotion Heart Diseases Hypertension Hypotension Medication Adherence Practice Guidelines As Topic Preventive Medicine Public Health Risk Reduction Behavior Self-Management Stroke Stroke Rehabilitation Telemedicine Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Best Practices Best Practices Guide BPG Cardiovascular Care Cardiovascular Disease Self-Management Cardiovascular Events Cardiovascular Health CVD Prevention Public Health Workforces Strategies Stroke Center Certification Stroke Centers

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• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:122290
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Best Practice Guideline ; Evaluation Studies
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• Division:
  DHDSP - Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions ; Healthy Living
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  153 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Banks, Desmond ; Jones, Christopher ; Lue, Brittany ; Mahalingam, Mallika ; Rivera, Mark ; Rosenberg, Andrew ; Sreedhara, Meera ; Taylor, Lauren ; Teachout, Emily ; Vaughan, Marla
• Citation:
  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
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d89a09178d34cc317141f9642ba33030d498af590e388fa346b357f84e5fa01d68998f8a1c7a02128bc42f242d1f06013161b3a88d0257e97987624aad9a50dd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/122290/cdc_122290_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 23.26 MB ]