Our Policy Positions

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Each year, the 91视频 (AHA) produces scientific statements and guidelines based on expert consensus in order to promote our mission to be a relentless force for longer, healthier lives. Our advocacy department works with leading experts around the world to translate these science-based documents into policy statements and policy advocacy materials that position the AHA on issues that will impact cardiovascular health and mortality, guide our advocacy work at all levels of government, allow us to support the important work of others, and inform policy makers, practitioners, health care professionals, researchers, the media and the public

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Policy Positions

Access to Healthy Food

Food Sustainability and Farm Bill (PDF)

Strategies to Address Socioeconomic and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Diseases by Incorporating Food and Nutrition Programs into the Primary Healthcare Setting (PDF)

Expanding Access to Healthy Food for Medicaid Beneficiaries (PDF)

Farm Bill Policy and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (2017) (PDF)

Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals & the Impact on Obesity and CVD (PDF)

 

Nutrition

Food Package and Retail Shelf Icon System (PDF)

Healthy Food Financing (PDF)

Menu Labeling (PDF)

Trans Fat (PDF)

 

Sugary Beverages & Healthy Hydration

Historical Analysis: Structural Racism and Sugary Drinks (PDF)

Historical Analysis: Structural Racism and Water Access (PDF)

Increasing Access to Safe Drinking Water Across Different Settings (PDF)

Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxation (PDF)

AHA Tiered Tax Policy in Brief (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 (PDF)

  

Sodium Reduction

 
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See Also: Tobacco Endgame
Access to Care
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CDC Prevention

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Forecasting

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Global Life Saving Programs

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Workplace Wellness

Historical Summary of 91视频 Published Positions on Worksite Wellness/Employee Health Management (PDF)

 

Food and Beverage in the Workplace

 

Tobacco and Nicotine in the Workplace

 

Employer Sponsored Wellness Programs

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Stroke Systems of Care

 

Telehealth

Telestroke: Improving Access to Quality Stroke Care (PDF)
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AHA positioning on “value-based care”

The 91视频 supports a health care system that is person-centered, focuses on improving individual and population level experience and health outcomes, promotes health equity, and rewards our health care workforce for how well they do versus the number of billable services regardless of outcomes. Read the AHA publications addressing the need for health care delivery and payment reform and to move away from traditional fee for service. Value-based care (or person-first care) offers to opportunity to improve our health care system. As value-based care grows and evolves it is essential that organizations like AHA are engaged to ensure the changes are truly person-centered and ensure that everyone has access to high-value, whole person-centered care that is affordable.
Learn more about AHA's positioning on value-based care