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A potential health promotion strategy used within a program. Approaches include awareness raising, education, environmental support, and policy change. (Heart Health Resource Centre, 1998)
The blood concentration of a family of lipid or "fatty" molecular compounds obtained directly from the diet or produced in the body from fatty dietary components; subtypes of cholesterol differ in their relation to CVD risk, with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol considered "good," and low-density (LDL) cholesterol considered "bad." (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
May refer to any of the disorders that can affect the circulatory system, but often means coronary heart disease, heart failure, and stroke, taken together. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
A combination of favorable health habits and conditions that protects against development of cardiovascular diseases. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
A set of interventions designed to reduce a population's risk for CVD through policy, environmental, and behavioral changes; also supports other approaches that apply to people who have suffered recognized CVD events (e.g., by facilitating public access to emergency care or by fostering social/environmental and behavioral changes that reinforce secondary CVD prevention); complements CVD prevention. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Sites where activities are carried out and where you will reach your audience, such as schools, worksites, and health care settings. (Heart Health Resource Centre, 1998)
When groups or agencies work jointly and continuously on a particular project or goal.
Collective efforts carried out by communities that are directed toward increasing community control and improving health.
Ad hoc ways in which individual groups or agencies might assist one another.
When groups or agencies consistently take one another's activities into account as they plan their own activities.
The use of agreed-upon standards of evidence in making clinical decisions for treating individual patients or categories of patients. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Any affliction that impairs the structure or function of the heart. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
A condition in which the pressure in the arterial circulation is greater than desired; associated with increased risk for heart disease, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and other conditions. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Rate of death expressed as the number of deaths occurring in a population of given size within a specified time interval. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Individuals, groups, and organizations working collaboratively in support of mutually agreed upon goals, principles, and benefits. In an effective network:

• A framework is in place for how things work;
• Everyone is connected to everyone else;
• Organizations, groups, and individuals are actively involved;
• People work together collaboratively; and
• What happens inside the network is based on mutually agreed goals, principles, and benefits.

An intervention approach to reducing the burden of chronic diseases that focuses on enacting effective policies (e.g., laws, regulations, formal and informal rules) or promoting environmental change (e.g., changes to economic, social, or physical environments). (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
An approach to health that aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups. In order to reach these objectives, it looks at and acts upon the broad range of factors and conditions that have a strong influence on our health. (Health Canada)
Recognizes that health is a capacity or resource rather than a state, a definition which corresponds more to the notion of being able to pursue one's goals, to acquire skills and education, and to grow. This broader notion of health recognizes the range of social, economic, and physical environmental factors that contribute to health. The best articulation of this concept of health is "the capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or control life's challenges and changes" (Frankish et al., 1996). (Health Canada)
The frequency of a particular condition within a defined population at a designated time. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Groups at especially high risk for CVD (e.g. those identified by sex, race or ethnicity, education, income, disability, place of residence, or sexual orientation). (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
The science and art of promoting health, preventing disease, and prolonging life through the organized efforts of society. Public health is a social and political concept aimed at improving health, prolonging life, and improving the quality of life among whole populations through health promotion, disease prevention, and other forms of health intervention. (World Health Organization Health Promotion Glossary, 1998)
Sudden interruption of blood supply to the brain caused by an obstruction or the rupture of a blood vessel. (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Refers to achieving comprehensive, sufficiently resourced, sustainable, and integrated systems of research, surveillance, policies, and programs that maintain health and prevent chronic disease. The system will link together and build upon existing initiatives in a coordinated and synergistic way. The system will be broader than just the health sector, and will include other relevant sectors such as transportation, education, social services, recreation, and others.