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State Program: Louisiana
Capacity Building
The Louisiana Department of Health and
Hospitals began receiving funds from CDC in 1999 to support a state heart
disease and stroke prevention program.
Burden of Heart Disease and Stroke
- Heart disease is the leading cause of
death in Louisiana, accounting for 11,185 deaths or approximately 27% of
the state's deaths in 2002. (National Vital Statistics Report
2004;53(5)).
- Stroke is the third leading cause of
death, accounting for 2,595 deaths or approximately 6% of the state's
deaths in 2002. (National Vital Statistics Report 2004;53(5)).
- According to Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey results, adults in Louisiana
reported having the following risk factors for heart disease and stroke:
In 2005,
- 29.4% had high blood pressure
- 30.3% of those screened reported having high blood cholesterol
In 2006,
- 9.2% had diabetes
- 23.4% were current smokers
- 63.0% were overweight or obese (Body
Mass Index greater than or equal to 25.0)
- 31.0% reported no exercise in the prior 30 days
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate collaboration among public and private sector
partners, such as managed care organizations, health
insurers, federally funded health centers, businesses,
priority population organizations, and emergency response
agencies.
- Define the burden of heart disease and stroke and assess
existing population-based strategies for primary and
secondary prevention of heart disease and stroke within the
state.
- Develop and update a comprehensive state plan for heart
disease and stroke prevention with emphasis on heart-healthy
policies development, physical and social environments
change, and disparities elimination (e.g., based on
geography, gender, race or ethnicity, or socioeconomic
status).
- Identify culturally appropriate approaches to promote
heart disease and stroke prevention among racial, ethnic,
and other priority populations.
- Use population-based public health strategies to
increase public awareness of the heart disease and stroke
urgency, the signs and symptoms of heart disease and stroke,
and the need to call 9–1–1.
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State Highlights
- The Louisiana Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (LAHDSP) has
implemented:
- Search Your Heart: A faith-based initiative that addresses the
disparity of heart disease and stroke in African-Americans and
Hispanics/Latinos.
- Sisters Together: a joint project with Southern University which
provided African American women with education and training to address
the risk factors related to heart disease and stroke.
- An initiative with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center, to train members of healthcare teams to educate patients
immediately following a cardiac event.
- The LAHDSP program will implement Prevent and Control High Blood
Pressure: Mission Possible, an initiative developed by the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. This initiative includes a
package of educational materials aimed at assisting the LAHDSP program
attract new partners and regenerate relationships with existing partners
to fight high blood pressure.
- The LAHDSP Program, in partnership with the Bureau of Emergency
Medical Systems, trained 353
emergency medical personnel on evaluating and treating stroke victims in
route to the hospital.
- Louisiana is part of the Delta States Stroke Consortium. The
Consortium is led by the Arkansas Department of Public Health and
includes Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- The LAHDSP program partners with the Black Women’s Health Imperative
project, or REACH 2010, to implement At the Heart of New Orleans
Coalition, an initiative designed to eliminate disparities in
cardiovascular disease in African-American women and communities.
Recently the LAHDSP program provided technical assistance to implement
and evaluate a faith-based community program to reduce heart disease
risk factors among 40 African American congregations.
- The LAHDSP program, in collaboration with the Diabetes Control program
and the Rural Health Association, trained federally qualified health
centers on strategies to prevent heart disease and stroke and improve
quality of care. Strategies include using electronic patient management
systems with prevention guidelines integrated in the systems.For more information on heart disease and
stroke prevention in the state, visit Louisiana's Cardiovascular Health
Program website at http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/.
To view parish–level data, visit our
interactive map site at
http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/library/maps/statemaps.htm.
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Page last reviewed:
December 5, 2007
Page last modified: December 5, 2007
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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