A
Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
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Section 4. Implementation: Mobilizing for Action
Summary
Section 3
presented two fundamental requirements and 22 specific recommendations for
which action can significantly accelerate progress in preventing heart
disease and stroke over the next two decades. To have this impact, each
recommendation must be linked with concrete action steps for practical
implementation. Such action steps were initially proposed by the Expert
Panels, and then reviewed by CDC, a Working Group, and a National Forum
convened to help develop this Action Plan.
This section presents
specific action steps as they correspond to the fundamental requirements and
recommendations in Section 3. To indicate their potential impact, the
steps are followed by brief descriptions of the outcomes expected from their
implementation.
Public health agencies
must play leading roles in implementing many or most of the proposed action
steps. All steps are addressed implicitly, if not explicitly, to these
agencies. All will require broad participation by partner organizations and
agencies–public and private–as well as the public health community as a
whole. All action steps are directed to all interested and potentially
contributing parties. Such partners' commitments are not assumed at this
stage of development. Interested organizations and agencies can make these
decisions after they have reviewed the plan and identified the areas where
they can make the greatest contributions.
This section concludes
with a discussion of the immediate need for action, including the initial
steps required and the issues that must be addressed, as well as the need
for ongoing review, periodic evaluation, and adaptation to future
conditions.
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Steps
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Date last reviewed:
05/12/2006
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion |
