The National Forum encourages states to use Tobacco Settlement Mulligan Project bonus payments towards heart disease and stroke prevention.
Recommendations for “Essential Features of a Surveillance System to Support the Prevention and Management of Heart Disease and Stroke” (Circulation, January 2/9, 2007; 115: 127 - 155)
Recommendations from “A State of the Science Conference: Evaluation of Policy and Environmental Change for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention”
Legislation related to the National Forum Policy Priorities:
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Public Health Improvement Act of 2000 Part IV
The Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act (STOP Stroke Act)
Heart for Women Act
Support for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs in all States