Learn about Federal changes to Medicaid and Food Assistance Programs..
Michigan's Women, Infants & Children program, providing supplemental nutrition, breastfeeding information, and other resources for healthy mothers & babies.
Information on the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance, SSI, Refugee, and other cash assistance.
If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
Children's Special Health Care Services information and FAQ's.
Information on assistance with home repairs, heat and utility bills, relocation, home ownership, burials, home energy, and eligibility requirements.
Information on the Food Assistance Program, eligibility requirements, and other food resources.
Information about the health care programs available through Medicaid and how to qualify.
Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
A federal program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival.
Universal caseload, or task-based processing, is a different way of handling public assistance cases.
Information on the Children's Protective Services Program, child abuse reporting procedures, and help for parents in caring for their children.
Information on adoption programs, adoption resources, locating birth parents and obtaining information from adoption records.
Information on Adult Protective Services, Independent Living Services, Adult Community Placement Services, and HIV/AIDS Support Services.
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
Information on the Children's Foster Care program and becoming a Foster Parent.
Information about the Michigan law that requires certain information be made available to a woman who is seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
Information on treatment and services for juvenile offenders, success stories, and more.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
Information on Safe Sleep for your baby, how to protect your baby's life.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Environmental Health Bureau (EHB) uses the best available science to reduce, eliminate, or prevent harm from environmental, chemical, and physical hazards.
Information, sources of data and resources to support Firearm Injury Prevention efforts across the state of Michigan.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
Information and resources for development of Plans of Safe Care.
Multicultural Health
Prevention of diseases & conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.
Information on communicable & chronic diseases.
Home to an array of public health programs, initiatives and interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of women, infants, families and communities.
Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records
Boards and Commissions
Bridge Card Participation Information on Electronic Benefits for clients and businesses, lists of participating retailers and ATMs, and QUEST.
Provider Payments Information on the direct deposit of State of Michigan payments into a provider's bank account.
Information on How to Bid, Requests for Proposals, forms and publications, contractor rates, and manuals.
Information & resources for Community and Faith-Based partners
Information on DHS Applications and Forms grouped by category.
State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP)
Health Care Providers
Licensing information for Adult Foster Care and Homes for the Aged, Child Day Care Facilities, Child Caring Institutions, Children's Foster Care Homes, Child Placing Agencies, Juvenile Court Operated Facilities and Children's or Adult Foster Care Camps.
Michigan Statewide Systems of Care
Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
Information on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, such as heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism.
CVD is the leading cause of death globally, and the World Health Organization estimates that it takes an estimated 20 million lives each year. In Michigan, heart disease has been the leading cause of death for more than a decade.
The MDHHS cardiovascular health epidemiologist supports the Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition, and Physical Activity (CVHNPA) Section by monitoring trends in cardiovascular disease, hospitalization, mortality, comorbidities, and behavioral factors among Michigan adults. Surveillance is also conducted to track disparities in health outcomes and healthcare utilization by various characteristics, including race/ethnicity, sex assigned at birth, gender, age, socioeconomic status, geography, disability status, and other characteristics.
The following sections include information about cardiovascular disease and associated conditions. To learn more and see data about a particular topic, click on a topic heading.
If you are looking for specific cardiovascular disease surveillance data that you do not see here, or if you need accessibility assistance reading any of the documents on this or other MDHHS Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology webpages, please contact the MDHHS Chronic Disease Epidemiology Section at MDHHS-ChronicEPI@michigan.gov.
Michigan Cardiovascular Disease Dashboard
This interactive dashboard provides a number of snapshots profiling cardiovascular disease among Michigan adults. It provides quick access to indicators at the state and county level, as well as demographics and selected comorbidities and controllable risk factors.
(June 2022) (March 2022) (February 2020) (August 2019)
Note: Clicking on the image will open a full-size version of the Heart Disease and Stroke Mortality in Michigan trend chart. (November 2020) (January 2020) (rev. April 2024) (October 2019) (rev. April 2024)High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy, Michigan, 2016-2019 (March 2022)
This presentation reports on hypertension among people who had a live birth using Michigan Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (2016-2019). Results include hypertension burden overall and by selected characteristics, maternal risk factors and comorbidities, and complications to mom and newborn.
Michigan Medicaid: Antihypertensive Medication Adherence Prevalence Among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries, by County, 2015-2023
(December 2025)
Understanding trends in medication adherence and related disparities provides critical insight for guiding public health strategies, such as pharmacist and community health worker interventions, to improve hypertension control and reduce the cardiovascular disease burden in Michigan. This brief provides antihypertensive medication (AHM) adherence prevalence estimates among adult Michigan beneficiaries ages 18-64 years who took antihypertensive medication from 2015 to 2023. AHM disparities are also reported by selected demographic characteristics and county.
Cholesterol awareness questions are included on the Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey on odd-numbered years. This includes two questions:
The most recent results for Michigan can be found on page 18 at the following link: Michigan 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Annual Report or in the 2019 Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Selected Tables.
Additional data about cholesterol is available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/maps_data.htm.
Michigan Medicaid: Antihypertensive Medication Adherence among Adult Beneficiaries (18-64 Years Old), by County, 2016-2018 Combined (November 2020)
This summary provides antihypertensive medication (AHM) adherence prevalence estimates among adult Michigan beneficiaries ages 18-64 years who took antihypertensive medication from 2016 to 2018. (See Methods.) AHM disparities are also reported by selected demographic characteristics and county.
Michigan's efforts to improve outcomes for individuals who suffer a stroke focus on improving treatment and communication across the continuum of stroke care. This includes emergency medical service (EMS) agencies, medical control authorities (MCAs), hospitals, and rehabilitation settings.
More information about this work can be found on the Michigan Stroke Program website. Dashboards, surveillance briefs, and other data resources related to stroke in Michigan can be accessed on the Michigan Stroke Program website's Data Dashboards & Briefs page.
The MDHHS Bureau of HIV and STI Programs develops reports using surveillance and supplemental data to inform care and prevention efforts and to inform the community. Data and statistics about HIV in Michigan are available on the MDHHS
HIV & STI Data & Statistics webpage.
