Stroke Facts and Statistics
Online Resources
Interactive Maps
CDC's interactive maps present heart disease and stroke mortality rates,
county–by–county, for the state, racial/ethnic group, and gender of your
choice.CDCynergy Heart Disease
and Stroke Prevention Online Training Module
CDCynergy is an interactive training and decision-support tool.
It is designed to help CDC
staff and public health professionals systematically plan communication
programs within a health context. It allows users to assemble
the pieces of a health communication plan systematically by answering
questions in a specific sequence.
The Roadmap: A Systematic
Approach to State Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs
The Roadmap is a Web-based resource for training and information to help
build the competencies needed by state Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP)
Program Coordinators. It provides suggested steps for carrying out
requirements of the HDSP Program as well as easy online access to training,
tools, and other resources needed for successful program development and
implementation. The Roadmap offers information on four key areas of
programmatic activities for developing and implementing a heart disease and
stroke prevention program, including What to Do and How to Do It.
Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System
Estimates of the prevalence of self–reported risk factors for stroke by
state can be computed online from CDC's state–based
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System.
FASTATS
The National Center for Health Statistics provides CDC's statistics on a
number of health topics from its national databases.
Download Software from Epidemiologic Analysis
Epi Info is a public domain software system that puts computing power in the
hands of public health professionals. The programs make it easy to create a
database by designing a form or questionnaire, entering data in the database
and analyzing the results with appropriate epidemiologic statistics, tables,
maps and graphs.
Global Cardiovascular Infobase*
An interactive Web site featuring epidemiologic profiles of cardiovascular
and cerebrovascular diseases in the world.
*Links to non–Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.
Page last reviewed: January 22, 2009
Page last modified: January 22, 2009
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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