Women and Heart Disease

By Casper, Michele L.

Excerpt
As the Nation’s Prevention Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to reducing the burden of heart disease – the leading cause of death and a major contributor to disability in the United States. Deaths from heart disease are largely preventable, and with targeted public health efforts we can alleviate much of the heavy burden of this disease. To meet this challenge, CDC works to closely monitor geographic and temporal trends in heart disease among racial and ethnic groups, strengthen the delivery of primary and secondary preventive health services to all such groups, and implement policy changes that support heart-healthy environments for all residents of the United States. CDC’s Associate Director for Women’s Health and Associate Director for Minority Health serve as the Agency’s focal points for coordinating activities and monitoring programs to meet these objectives.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents A Message from the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .................................................................................................. iii A Message from the Associate Director for Women’s Health and the Associate Director for Minority Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ..................................................................................................................................................... v Foreword by James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H. ................................................................................................................................................ vii List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................................................................. xiii Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Section 1. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease among Women ............................................................................................... 19 The Social Construction of Race ............................................................................................................................................................... 20 Misreporting of Race and Ethnicity on Death Certificates .............................................................................................................................. 21 Specific Categories of Heart Disease Deaths Among Women ........................................................................................................................ 22 Age Distribution of Heart Disease Deaths Among Women ............................................................................................................................ 22 Heart Disease Death Rate Trends for 1991-1995 ....................................................................................................................................... 23 County Variation in Heart Disease Death Rates ........................................................................................................................................... 23 Section 2. Reader’s Guide to Understanding and Interpreting the Maps ................................................................................................. 27 Calculation of Heart Disease Death Rates .................................................................................................................................................. 28 National Heart Disease Mortality Map Layouts .......................................................................................................................................... 29 National Map Projections ......................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Scale of the National Maps ....................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Guide to National Maps of Local Social Environment .................................................................................................................................. 30 National Population Distribution Map Layouts ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Guide to State Maps of Heart Disease Mortality ......................................................................................................................................

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Women and Heart Disease

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Casper, Michele L.

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