Men and Heart Disease an Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality

Publisher:
Number Of Pages: 231
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0966508521
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780966508529
Binding: Paperback

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.
Among men, mortality s for heart disease are higher than the s for all forms of cancer combined. Approximately 356,598 men
die of heart disease each year, and approximately 5.8 million men alive today have suffered a heart attack or angina pectoris (chest
pain). In addition, the burden of heart disease among men is not equally distributed among racial and ethnic groups within the
United States. Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality comprehensively describes the unequal
distribution of heart disease among these groups.
In addition, Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality provides health professionals and
concerned citizens at the local, state, and national levels with information essential to identifying populations of men at greatest
risk of heart disease and in greatest need of prevention efforts. Men and Heart Disease provides, for the first time, county-level
maps of heart disease for men of the five largest racial and ethnic groups in the United States — American Indians and Alaska Natives,
Asians and Pacific Islanders, Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites. In addition, Men and Heart Disease includes maps that depict
geographic patterns of local economic and medical care resources and population distributions for each racial and ethnic group.
These maps provide crucial information for tailoring prevention efforts to the communities in need.
This publication is the second in a series of atlases to cardiovascular disease that are being developed through a collaboration
between CDC and West Virginia University. The first atlas was Women and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Mortality.
Now, I am pleased to share Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality with you. I encourage
you to use these data to improve the delivery of preventive health services and to create heart-healthy environments for all men.

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