How can we invigorate professionals who lead cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion programs?

Heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases account for one in every three deaths in the United States and cardiovascular disease is the nation's leading cause of death among both men and women, and the leading cause of health disparities.

We host The Heart of the Matter, a quarterly podcast to invigorate the field of cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion. In the inaugural episode, we chat with leading experts and their lessons learned from programs implemented at the John Hopkins Hospital during 2023 American #HeartMonth.

For NACDD, we developed a marketing plan for a new podcast, the inaugural episode script, and hosted the first conversation between two leading experts from the John Hopkins Hospital during American #HeartMonth.

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What data sources are useful for heart disease and stroke prevention programs conducting policy or data surveillance and/or evaluation?

Before planning any health promotion or disease prevention program, stakeholders should carefully design a surveillance/monitoring and evaluation plan. Otherwise, how will you know if your program efforts are being implemented as intended or achieving the outcomes you desire?

We collaborated with CDC Fellows and the American Heart Association to contribute to “Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resources for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs,” which includes a variety of new topic-specific resources, including geographic information systems (GIS) surveillance tools, performance measures for hypertension, and updated tools essential to planning, implementation, and evaluation in heart disease prevention and control. The guide also uniquely includes an updated (2016) media tools table for tracking and reporting relevant media promotion metrics relevant to communication efforts.

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