Our Policy Positions
Access to Healthcare
- American Heart Association's Call to Action for Payment and Delivery System Reform
- AHA Comments to NASEM on COVID19 Vaccine (PDF)
- The American Heart Association's Call to Action for Reducing the Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease (LINK)
- Balance Billing Principles (PDF)
- Call to Action: Maternal Health and Saving Mothers (LINK)
- Forecasting the Future of Cardiovascular Disease in the United States
- Government Continues to Have an Important Role in Promoting Cardiovascular Health
- Improving Heart Health through Value Based Payment (PDF)
- The Importance of Community Health Workers for CVD Prevention and Treatment (July 2018)
- Nonfinancial Incentives for Quality
- Payment for Quality Guiding Principles and Recommendations
- Presidential Advisory: AHA Principles on the Accessibility and Affordability of Drugs and Biologics
- Principles for Health Care Reform
- Projected Costs of Informal Caregiving for CVD 2015 to 2035
- Public Charge Statement (PDF)
- State CV Health Programs: A Guide to Core Infrastructure, Activities, and Resources
- Expanding Access to Care Through Telehealth (PDF)
- Telehealth Principles Update 2022
- Paid Family and Medical Leave (PDF)
Access to Healthy Food
- Expanding Access to Healthy Food for Medicaid Beneficiaries (PDF)
- Farm Bill Policy and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (PDF)
- Food Marketing and Advertising to Kids (PDF)
- Food Package and Retail Shelf Icon System (PDF)
- Healthy Food Financing (PDF)
- Menu Labeling (PDF)
- Reduction of Sodium in Diets and in the Food Supply
- Trans Fat (PDF)
- Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals & the Impact on Obesity and CVD (PDF)
- Population Approaches to Improve Diet
- Strengthening US Food Policies and Programs to Promote Equity in Nutrition Security (LINK)
- Strategies to Address Socioeconomic and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Diseases by Incorporating Food and Nutrition Programs into the Primary Healthcare Setting (PDF)
Cardiovascular Disease Management
- Statement on Drug Formularies (PDF)
- Cardiovascular Drug Shortages
- Presidential Advisory: AHA Principles on the Accessibility and Affordability of Drugs and Biologics
- Quality of Care and Disease Management
- A Taxonomy of Disease Management
- Palliative Care and Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
- Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home: A Joint Policy Statement from the American Heart Association and American Medical Association
Cardiovascular Systems of Care
Clinical Care
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Coronary Artery Calcium Screening (PDF)
- Evolution of The Guideline Advantage: Lessons Learned From the Front Lines of Outpatient Performance Measurement
- Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease
- Genetic Counselors: Improving Access to Their Services for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease and Their Families (PDF)
- Medication Adherence: Importance, issues and policy (LINK)
- Medication Adherence Executive Summary
- Principles for Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Recommendations for the Implementation of Telehealth
- Reducing nontraumatic lower-extremity amputations by 20% by 2030: time to get to our feet: a policy statement from the American Heart Association (LINK)
- Reducing Non-Traumatic Lower Extremity Amputations 20% by 2030 - Executive Summary (PDF)
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Remote Patient Monitoring (PDF)
- Telestroke Improving Access to Quality Stroke Care
- Call to Action to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Patients: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association
CPR and AED's
- Cardiac Emergency Response Planning for Schools
- Basic Life Support Training for Healthcare Providers Guidance (PDF)
- Lay Rescuer Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Programs: Lessons Learned
- Naloxone in CPR/AED Training and Public Access to Defibrillation (PDF)
- Reducing Barriers for Implementation of Bystander Initiated CPR
- Response to Cardiac Arrest and Selected Life Threatening Emergencies
Healthy Schools and Childhood Obesity
- Food Marketing to Children in Schools (PDF)
- Increasing Access to Safe Drinking Water in Schools and Communities (PDF)
- Pre-participation Screening of Young Competitive Athletes Policy Guidance (PDF)
- Promoting Physical Activity Through School Facilities
- School Nutrition Policy Statement (PDF)
- Treatment of Childhood Obesity in the Healthcare Environment (PDF)
- Policy Levers to Improve Physical Education, Youth Physical Activity and Social and Emotional Learning (PDF)
Physical Activity
- Active Transportation (PDF)
- Creating Built Environments That Expand Active Transportation and Active Living Across the United States (PDF)
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Guidance for a Reasonably Designed Employer Sponsored Wellness Program (PDF)
- Increasing and Improving Physical Education and Physical Activity in Schools (PDF)
- National Physical Activity Plan A Call to Action by the AHA (PDF)
- Obesity Prevention and Health Promotion Child Care Settings (PDF)
- Physical Activity Guidelines Rationale for Regular Updates (PDF)
- Promoting Physical Activity Through School Facilities
Public Health Advocacy
- American Heart Association and Nonprofit Advocacy: Past, Present and Future (PDF)
- Evidence-based Policy Making for Public Health Interventions in Cardiovascular Diseases: Formally Assessing the Feasibility of Clinical Trials
- Forecasting the Future of Cardiovascular Disease in the United States
- Nonprofit Advocacy at the American Heart Association: Creating a Visionary Way Forward at Our 40th Anniversary (LINK)
- The Value of Primordial and Primary Prevention for CVD
- Critical Support Needed to Strengthen Public Health Infrastructure in the United States - Executive Summary (PDF)
Social Determinants of Health
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Policy Statement (PDF)
- Call to Action: Rural Health - A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association
- Executive Summary: Call to Action: Rural Health - A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association
- Healthy Neighborhoods and Access (PDF)
- Housing Access Affordability and Discrimination (PDF)
- Housing and Cardiovascular Health (PDF)
- Mitigating the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences by Strengthening Income Support for Families (PDF)
- Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences and Referral Pathways (PDF)
- Rural Health Policy Guidance (PDF)
Stroke
- Comprehensive Stroke Centers: A Consensus Statement from the Brain Attack Coalition
- Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care
- Interactions Within Stroke Systems of Care
- Implementation of Telemedicine within Stroke
- Implementation Strategies for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) within Stroke Systems of Care
- Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care - a 2019 Update (PDF)
- Recommendations for the Implementation of Telehealth
- Recommendations for Regional Stroke Destination Plans in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities From the Prehospital Stroke System of Care Consensus Conference: A Consensus Statement (LINK)
- Risk Adjustment for Stroke Outcome Measures to Ensure Quality of Care
- Stroke Outcome Measures
- Telestroke Improving Access to Quality Stroke Care
Sugary Beverages
- AHA Tiered Tax Policy in Brief (PDF)
- Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxation (PDF)
- SSB Tax Report Appendices A-C (PDF)
- Tiered Sugary Drink Tax Revenue Calculations Brief (PDF)
- Distribution of Sugar Content in Sugary Drink Purchases in the US: Implications for Tiered Taxation (PDF)
- Warning Labels on Sugary Drinks
- Increasing Access to Safe Drinking Water in Schools and Communities (PDF)
Tobacco and Clean Air
- New and Emerging Tobacco Products and the Nicotine Endgame - Policy In Brief
- Clean Indoor Air Laws and the Impact on Cardiovascular Disease (PDF)
- Eliminating the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies (PDF)
- Guidance to Reduce the Cardiovascular Burden of Ambient Air Pollutants (LINK)
- The Impact of Smokeless Tobacco Products on Cardiovascular Diseases (PDF)
- Policy Statement on E Cigarettes
- The 50th Anniversary of the US Surgeon Generals Report on Tobacco
- Smoke-Free Policies in Multi-Unit Housing (PDF)
- Marijuana Policy Supplement (PDF)
Workplace Wellness
- Food and Beverage Environment in the Workplace (LINK)
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Guidance for a Reasonably Designed Employer Sponsored Wellness Program (PDF)
- Guidance to Employers on Integrating E-cigarettes/Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems into Tobacco Worksite Policy
- Historical Summary of American Heart Association Published Positions on Worksite Wellness/Employee Health Management
- Outcome-based Incentives for Worksite Wellness Programs
- Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease
- Speaking with One Voice on Worksite Wellness: The American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association
- The Roll of Worksite Health Screening
- Worksite Wellness Programs for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (PDF)