Overview of the Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke

Welcome to a brief introduction to the Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke. The Atlas is a free online tool that allows you to easily access highquality local level data and maps. With these maps, you can identify and document geographic differences and address community health priorities. For those who receive funding from CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, the maps in the atlas can be used to support your work. Let's begin with the type of data that is included in the atlas. There are many types of data available in the atlas and they fall into four main categories. They are heart disease and stroke data reflecting mortality, prevalence, hospitalizations and risk factors. Data on community characteristics such as rural urban status, household income, and much more. Demographic data, including race and ethnicity, sex, and those aged 65 and older, and proximity to health care, such as stroke centers, federally qualified health centers, hospitals with cardiac rehabilitation services, and more. These highquality data sets can be mapped at the county level, and many of them can also be mapped by census tract. The maps that you create as well as the data can easily be downloaded to further analyze or share. With the maps that you create, you will be able to identify where the cardiovascular disease burden is greatest and where the burden is lowest. The maps shown in this example include the contiguous US, which can be useful for national context. Patterns can be observed at more local levels simply by zooming into the area of interest. The maps created with the Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke can be used to address community priorities through program planning, monitoring, and evaluation. To recap, the Atlas is a free online mapping tool that makes it easy to access highquality local level data and maps that can be used to address community priorities for prevention of heart disease and stroke. Thank you for watching. You can find the atlas of heart disease and stroke and instructions on how to use the atlas by visiting www.cdc.gov and searching atlas of heart disease and stroke.