2008 Public Health Action Plan Update: Celebrating Our First Five Years

Action Plan Return to Action Plan Main Page  Sections Overview Milestones/Landmark Events Key Messages Action Plan: Celebrating 5 Years Reflections from the Chair of the Forum Commentary from AHA Commentary from ASTHO Commentary from NACDD and CHC Reducing Heart Disease and Stroke in the U.S. Burden and Disparities Today Making Connections Mission Statements/Strategies Review of  Components and Recommendations Action Framework Implementation Group's Priorities for 2008/2009 Appendix A Appendix B

Mission Statements and Strategies of the Implementation Groups

National Forum's Vision: Working together for a heart-healthy and stroke-free world.

National Forum's Mission: To provide leadership and encourage collaboration among organizations committed to heart disease and stroke prevention.

Implementation Groups

• Communications Implementation Group

• Public Health Leadership and Partnership Implementation Group

• Action Priorities Implementation Group

• Organizational Capacity Implementation Group

• Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Group

• Policy Research Implementation Group

• Regional and Global Collaboration Implementation Group

Implementation Group Missions

Communications: To effectively communicate the urgency and importance of preventing heart disease and stroke through a long term strategy of public information and education.

Public Health Leadership and Partnership: To foster effective leadership and partnership for preventing heart disease and stroke.

Action Priorities: To identify effective policies in cardiovascular health (CVH) promotion and cardiovascular disease prevention at the national, state, and local levels to ensure effective public health action against heart disease and stroke.

Organizational Capacity: To build capacity of federal, state, and local public health agencies, including laboratories, to address heart disease and stroke as a priority within a strong chronic disease prevention effort and to develop the needed competencies and resources.

Monitoring and Evaluation: To monitor the burden of heart disease and stroke and measure progress in the prevention and treatment of heart disease and stroke by:

• Expanding and standardizing population-wide data sources and activities

• Establishing data systems for evaluation of policy and program interventions

• Developing professional staff capacity for monitoring and evaluation

Policy Research: To develop a comprehensive policy research agenda, foster translating this research into practice, and investigate relevant economic models.

Regional and Global Collaboration: To engage regional and global partners to mobilize resources in heart disease and stroke prevention and treatment.

Core Strategies for Achieving Missions

Communications: To be achieved by

• Developing a communications plan.

• Implementing strategies for educating decision makers and other stakeholders.

• Identifying and working with key communication partners to achieve goals.

• Evaluating communication strategies and adjusting activities as needed.

Public Health Leadership: To be achieved by

• Broadening, strengthening, and sustaining multi-sector public health partnerships and coalitions to implement and institutionalize the Action Plan.

• Helping to develop implementation plans at national, state, and local levels.

• Fostering collaboration within state health departments among complementary CVH-related programs.

Action Priorities: To be achieved by

• Implementing the most promising public health programs and policies.

• Emphasizing promotion of desirable social and environmental conditions and favorable behavioral partners.

• Addressing all opportunities for prevention.

Organizational Capacity: To be achieved by

• Establishing definable entities with responsibility and accountability for heart disease and stroke prevention.

• Creating a training system to develop and maintain appropriately trained public health workforces.

• Developing and disseminating model performance standards and core competencies in heart disease and stroke prevention and cardiovascular health promotion.

• Providing ongoing access to technical assistance and consultation for agencies and partners in heart disease and stroke prevention.

• Integrating and collaborating with all relevant programs and partners.

Monitoring and Evaluation: To be achieved by

• Expanding and standardizing population-wide data sources and activities.

• Establishing data systems for evaluation of policy and program interventions.

• Developing professional staff capacity for monitoring and evaluation.

Policy Research: To be achieved by

• Developing and fostering implementation of a comprehensive prevention research agenda for heart disease and stroke.

• Seeking collaboration among interested parties to address research questions critical to advancement of policies for cardiovascular disease a prevention and health promotion.

• Identifying knowledge gaps that inhibit the ability to fully implement the Action Plan.

• Fostering research on effective translation of science into practice and on improving access to and use of quality health care and improving outcomes for patients with or at risk for cardiovascular disease.

• Fostering economic research from development of economic models of chronic disease prevention and health promotion to studies of return on investment for prevention programs.

Regional and Global Collaboration: To be achieved by

• Providing global leadership, partnerships, and organizations.

• Establishing and supporting global policies.

• Developing a global communications strategy.

• Strengthening global capacity.

• Enhancing global monitoring and evaluation.

• Promoting and supporting global research.

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Page last reviewed: August 8, 2008
Page last modified: August 8, 2008
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion