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Translating the Public Health Action Plan
Into Action
Guidance for Task Groups
Task 6: Advancing Knowledge
Advancing Knowledge
Action: Convene a group to address the
research agenda for heart disease and stroke
prevention.
Task: Collate relevant existing research agendas, identify
gaps, and develop a comprehensive research plan.
Outcome, April 2005: Report of recommended research priorities
and strategies including prevention in youth and early adulthood, with
specific research topics, proposed funding and timelines, and addressing
research training requirements.
Rationale
To implement the Action Plan
by addressing the continual need for research that contribute
to preventing heart disease and stroke. While current knowledge fully supports taking action, furthering that knowledge through a
comprehensive prevention research agenda will be necessary for
continued progress. Especially important for progress is pursuit of
a research agenda that addresses questions critical for policy
development and decision making in heart disease and stroke prevention.
This policy–targeted prevention research agenda is an essential
Action Plan component and one in which multiple partners
have strong interest and much to contribute.
What Success Will Look Like
The report will include an assessment of current research agendas
(e.g., agendas for various organizations, which knowledge gaps are
addresses and which are not addressed by current research); recommended
research priorities (including specific research areas, e.g., risk
factors and prevention in youth and early adulthood, methods of
translating research into action, cost–effectiveness of screening and
prevention policies and programs); potential sources of institutional
sponsorship and funding; timelines for initiation and completion of the
various research activities; and an assessment of training requirements
necessary to fulfill the proposed research goals. Additionally, the
report should include the next steps that will be necessary to address
the research priorities that are identified in the report.
This Task in the Larger Picture
The broader context of advancing
knowledge is shown in the attached summary. The potential links
of this task with the other themes of the Action Plan are
illustrated by the following:
- Effective communication: New research will further define
the possibility and need for early interventions to prevent heart
disease and stroke, demonstrate the potential economic impact of
prevention, and indicate new ways to translate science into practice.
Each of these new discoveries will show the importance
of cardiovascular health to the general population.
- Strategic leadership, partnerships, and organization: A
defined research agenda can identify current and future leaders in
heart disease and stroke prevention, forge additional partnerships by
promoting research collaborations, and ensure that the myriad
organizations involved in cardiovascular disease prevention are
actively involved in furthering knowledge.
- Taking action: While current knowledge has long provided
the basis for public health policies and programs, additional research
in risk factors in youth, translating science to action,
and cost–effectiveness of various prevention strategies will lead to
creating policies and programs that more effectively reduce the
burden and disparities of heart disease and stroke.
- Strengthening capacity: Standards and competencies for data
collection, analysis, and dissemination must be based on relevant
information. New research to further define what type of data should
be collected and how it should be analyzed will strengthen the
standards for heart disease and stroke prevention efforts. Capacity to address the research agenda will need to be
strengthened.
- Evaluating impact: Further prevention research will lead to
better understanding of means to prevent risk factors for heart
disease and stroke and to improvements in techniques for translating
scientific information into public health practice. The result will be
new public health policies and programs aimed at reversing the
epidemic of heart disease and stroke.
- Engaging in regional and global partnerships: Scientists
and public health officials everywhere need to become increasingly
focused on advancing knowledge of risk factors and improved methods of
reducing the heart disease and stroke burden on the global population.
Engaging the global community in the prevention research effort is a
key component of progress.
Approach to the Task
While the approach to be taken should be determined by
the leaders and members of the task group, the following suggested
10–step list may be helpful:
- Define the scope of activity to be pursued through April 2005,
within the overall statement of the task, above.
- Prepare a preliminary outline of the anticipated report.
- Identify the main source materials that will support the group's
work.
- Take account of related work by others, whether completed or in
progress.
- Consider whether expertise or consultation beyond the task group
will be needed, whether within the National Forum or beyond, and
arrange to obtain the needed input.
- Divide responsibilities for work components among all
members of the group.
- Use support staff to assist in logistics and communications.
- Maintain frequent contact and monitor progress, including a
cumulative record of meetings and accomplishments.
- Draft the task group report.
- Present the report to the 3rd National Forum, April 2005.
CDC Support Staff Contact Information
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K-47
Atlanta, GA 30341
Tele: 770–488–5504
Fax: 770–488–8151
Email:
ccdinfo@cdc.gov
Web site: http://www.cdc.gov/hdsp/
The Context of the Concrete Tasks
Task 6: Advancing Knowledge
Action: Convene a group to address the prevention research
agenda for heart disease and stroke prevention.
Concrete Task: Collate relevant existing research agendas,
identify gaps, and develop a comprehensive research plan.
Expected Outcome: Report on recommended research priorities
and strategies including prevention in youth and early adulthood, with
specific research topics, proposed funding and timelines, and addressing
research training requirements.
The above task is 1 of 8 tasks for the National Forum to
implement during the current year. This task emerged from 2 of 3
priority action steps in the area of advancing knowledge designated by
Working Group 4 in January 2004. These 3 action steps are to:
- Convene National Forum members and others with relevant expertise
to develop a comprehensive and prioritized prevention research agenda
for CVH.
- *Identify National Forum members and others with expertise
specifically in CVD prevention in youth and early adulthood and charge
this group to define a research agenda and timeline for major progress
in this area.
- Charge a group of experts within and beyond the National Forum to
identify or foster establishment of a center of excellence in
evaluation planning.
Task 6 and its related priority action steps were developed from the
following recommendation in the full Action Plan:
"Conduct and facilitate research by means of collaboration among
interested parties to identify new policy, environmental, and sociocultural priorities for CVH promotion. Once the priorities are
identified, determine the best methods for translating, disseminating,
and sustaining them. Fund research to identify barriers and effective
interventions to translate science into practice and thereby
improve access to and use of quality health care and improve outcomes
for patients with or at risk for CVD. Conduct economics research,
including cost–effectiveness studies and comprehensive economic models
that assess the return on investment for CVH promotion as well as
primary and secondary CVD prevention."
The background of this task can be found in A Public Health Action
Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke in
Section 2. A Comprehensive Public
Health Strategy, Section
3. Recommendations, and Section 4.
Implementation.
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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
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