2008 Public Health Action Plan Update: Celebrating Our
First Five Years
Action Framework for a Comprehensive Public
Health Strategy to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
The Action Framework above describes the public heath strategy to prevent
heart disease and stroke. The top portion shows a vision for the
future—
- Social and environmental conditions favorable to health lead to
- Behavioral patterns that promote health; which leads to
- Low population risk; which leads to
- Few events/only rare deaths; which leads to
- Full functional capacity/low risk of recurrence; which leads to
- Good quality of life until death.
The next part of the framework describes the continuum of care. On
the "upstream" portion of the continuum it shows—
- Policy and environmental change
- Behavior change
- Risk factor detection and control
On the "downstream" portion of the continuum it shows—
- Emergency care/acute care management
- Rehabilitation/long-term case management
- End-of-life care
The next portion of the framework describes the intervention approaches
and what the present reality is—
- Unfavorable social and environmental conditions leads to
- Adverse behavioral patterns; which leads to
- Major risk factors; which leads to
- First event/sudden death; which leads to
- Disability/risk of recurrence; which leads to
- Fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications/decompensation.
Below that describes what the Healthy People 2010 goals are to increase
the quality and years of healthy life and to eliminate disparities—
- Goal 1: prevention of risk factors
- Goal 2: detection and treatment of risk factors
- Goal 3: early identification and treatment of heart attack/stroke
- Goal 4: prevention of recurrent cardiovascular events
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Page last reviewed:
August 12, 2008
Page last modified: August 12, 2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion |
