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Translating the Public Health Action Plan
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Public health experts, key partners, and heart disease and stroke prevention specialists participated in extensive collaboration to create a comprehensive heart disease and stroke prevention plan. As a result, A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke was released and first disseminated in April 2003.
The purpose of the Action Plan is –
"to chart a course for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and collaborating public health agencies, with all interested partners and the public at large, to promote national goals for preventing heart disease and stroke over the next two decades—through 2020 and beyond."
The Action Plan is driven by two fundamental requirements and five essential components that together define seven action areas (see Figure 1 below):
Early in the dissemination of the Action Plan, a strategy was developed to quickly implement established priorities and set goals.
As part of this process, the National Forum for Prevention of Heart Disease and Stroke was reconvened in April 2003. The National Forum:
The identified concrete tasks, as well as certain of the additional priority action steps, are now being undertaken through the efforts of the National Forum and other partners.
Figure 1: The 7 thematic areas of the Action Plan
A full report of the translation process is available in the related document, Setting Priorities for Implementation of A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke, prepared for CDC by Concept Systems, Inc., August 2004.
The Public Health Action Plan update is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). Learn more about PDFs.
Date last reviewed:
05/12/2006
Content source: Division for Heart Disease and Stroke
Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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