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Access to Care

  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s 2020 Health Care Reform Principles (PDF)
  • Balance Billing (PDF)
  • Cardiovascular Disease: Women's No. 1 Health Threat (PDF)
  • Coalition Consensus Health Care Reform Principles (PDF)
  • Critical Coverage for Heart Health: Medicaid and CVD (PDF)
  • Ensuring Access to Quality Care Network Advocacy (PDF)
  • Investing in Prevention: Covering Preventive Services in the Medicaid Program (PDF)
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Maternal Health (PDF)
  • The Uninsured with CVD and Stroke (PDF)
  • Why Coverage Matters (PDF)

Access to Healthy Food

  • Decreasing Sugary Drink Consumption (PDF)
  • Lowering Sodium in School Meals: INFOGRAPHIC (PDF)
  • Protecting Benefits and Improving Diet Quality in the Farm Bill (PDF)
  • Reducing Sodium in the Diet of U.S. Children (PDF)
  • Reducing Sodium in the U.S. Diet (PDF)
  • Nutrition Security (PDF)

Acute Care

  • A Race Against the Clock Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (PDF)
  • Telecommunicator-CPR: Enhancing the Chain of Survival (PDF)
  • When Minutes Matter Systems of Care of Acute (PDF)

Clinical and Post Clinical Care

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation: Putting More Patients on the Road to Recovery (PDF)
  • Registries (PDF)
  • Telehealth: Embracing CVD Healthcare in the 21st Century (PDF)
  • A Tough Pill to Swallow: Medication Adherence and Cardiovascular Disease (PDF)
  • Palliative Care: Reducing Suffering for Patients with CVD and Stroke (Policy Brief) (PDF)
  • Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring At Home (PDF)
  • Peripheral Artery Disease (PDF)

Healthy Schools and Childhood Obesity

  • Lowering Sodium in School Meals: INFOGRAPHIC (PDF)
  • Nutrition Standards and School Meals (PDF)
  • Reducing Sodium in the Diet of U.S. Children (PDF)
  • Sodium in School Meals: Myths and Facts (PDF)
  • Teaching America's Kids A Healthy Lifestyle: Physical Education in Public Schools (PDF)
  • Food Marketing and Advertising to Children (PDF)

Physical Activity

  • Teaching America's Kids A Healthy Lifestyle: Physical Education in Public Schools (PDF)
  • Active Transportation: Creating Spaces to Promote Active Living (PDF)

Public Health Advocacy and Research

  • Cardiovascular Disease A Costly Burden for America Projections (PDF)
  • Cardiovascular Surveillance (PDF)
  • Investing In Heart Disease And Stroke Research (PDF)
  • Making Progress: Making a Difference (PDF)
  • Million Hearts Saving Millions of Lives by Working Together (PDF)
  • Projections of Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence and Costs (PDF)
  • Quality Systems of Care Across the U.S.

Stroke

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  • Laying the Cornerstones for Systems of Care: Primary Stroke Centers (PDF)
  • Stroke in the U.S. (PDF)
  • Telestroke: Connecting Patients to Quality Treatment (PDF)

Tobacco and Clean Air

  • Air Pollution and CVD (PDF)
  • Air Quality (PDF)
  • Higher Prices for Better Health Raising Tobacco Excise Taxes (PDF)
  • Quitting Time: Comprehensive Coverage of Tobacco Cessation Services in Public and Private Health Insurance (PDF)
  • Reducing the Burden of Tobacco: Establishing Sustainable Funding for Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Programs (PDF)
  • Structural Racism and Tobacco (PDF)
  • Tobacco Flavoring - Fact Sheet (PDF)
  • Tobacco Retail Licensure (PDF)

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