Million Hearts: Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Action Steps for Public Health Practitioners

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• Alternative Title:
  Million Hearts: Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Action Steps for Public Health Practitioners: A Million Hearts Action Guide
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Description:
  Million Hearts™ is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services initiative that is co-led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, with the goal of preventing one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. To help achieve this goal, Million Hearts™ aims to increase by 10 million the number of persons in the United States whose blood pressure is under control. Self-measured blood pressure monitoring (SMBP) plus additional support is one strategy that can be implemented in communities to reduce the risk of disability or death due to high blood pressure.
• Subjects:
  Chronic Disease Heart Diseases Hypertension Stroke
• Keywords:
  2025 CDC Chronic Disease Prevention Resource Guide Heart Disease And Stroke (Chronic Health Topic) Workforce Development, Technical Assistance, Training, And Capacity Building Materials
• Series:
  Million Hearts
• DOI:
  https://www.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/251796
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet or Booklet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  40 pdf pages
• Citation:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Action Steps for Public Health Practitioners. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2013.
• Collection(s):
  Chronic Diseases and Conditions
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:54d5a78de8ad17e43c6f75ed04cac18c9e65dc0620324e25c26c4a209e812104d87baed4557efbb0a56de78d2873549c898da96af84f2080ef33d98ee0e6e421
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/251796/cdc_251796_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.00 MB ]