2008 Public Health Action Plan Update: Celebrating Our
First Five Years
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
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Communications Implementation Group
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Public Health Leadership and Partnership Implementation
Group
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Action Priorities Implementation Group
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Organizational Capacity Implementation Group
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Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Group
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Policy Research Implementation Group
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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:
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Expanding and standardizing population-wide data
sources and activities
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Establishing data systems for evaluation of policy
and program interventions
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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
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Developing a communications plan.
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Implementing strategies for educating decision
makers and other stakeholders.
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Identifying and working with key communication
partners to achieve goals.
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Evaluating communication strategies and adjusting
activities as needed.
Public Health Leadership: To be achieved by
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Broadening, strengthening, and sustaining
multi-sector public health partnerships and coalitions to implement
and institutionalize the Action Plan.
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Helping to develop implementation plans at national,
state, and local levels.
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Fostering collaboration within state health
departments among complementary CVH-related programs.
Action Priorities: To be achieved by
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Implementing the most promising public health
programs and policies.
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Emphasizing promotion of desirable social and
environmental conditions and favorable behavioral partners.
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Addressing all opportunities for prevention.
Organizational Capacity: To be achieved by
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Establishing definable entities with responsibility
and accountability for heart disease and stroke prevention.
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Creating a training system to develop and maintain
appropriately trained public health workforces.
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Developing and disseminating model performance
standards and core competencies in heart disease and stroke
prevention and cardiovascular health promotion.
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Providing ongoing access to technical assistance and
consultation for agencies and partners in heart disease and stroke
prevention.
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Integrating and collaborating with all relevant
programs and partners.
Monitoring and Evaluation: To be achieved by
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Expanding and standardizing population-wide data
sources and activities.
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Establishing data systems for evaluation of policy
and program interventions.
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Developing professional staff capacity for
monitoring and evaluation.
Policy Research: To be achieved by
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Developing and fostering implementation of a
comprehensive prevention research agenda for heart disease and
stroke.
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Seeking collaboration among interested parties to
address research questions critical to advancement of policies for
cardiovascular disease a prevention and health promotion.
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Identifying knowledge gaps that inhibit the ability
to fully implement the Action Plan.
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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.
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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
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Providing global leadership, partnerships, and
organizations.
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Establishing and supporting global policies.
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Developing a global communications strategy.
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Strengthening global capacity.
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Enhancing global monitoring and evaluation.
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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 |