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About Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure:
Mission Possible
Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission
Possible is a package of professionally produced awareness and education
materials offered by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program
(NHBPEP) to help the public health community attract new partners and
revitalize relationships with existing partners to fight high blood pressure.
It offers 4 types of materials to support partnership generation and
revitalization efforts:
- A Call to Action paper, a marketing-oriented
manifesto that makes the case for all Americans to join the fight against high
blood pressure. It spells out in compelling detail the impact of high blood
pressure on our society and suggests what we could save in lives and dollars if
we strengthened our efforts to fight it. It also suggests ways that different
types of organizations can participate in HBP prevention and control
activities.
This document provides a good introduction for potential
partners and can be used to supplement a partnership invitation letter or
brought to an introductory meeting.
- Partner Sheets. These sheets complement the Call
to Action paper by depicting some of the ways that different types of
organizations can help fight high blood pressure. Each is targeted at a
different type of organization: insurers and managed care companies, grocery
and pharmacy chains, other businesses, health care providers, community, civic,
and faith-based organizations, and teachers and educators.
These sheets
can be used with the Call to Action paper or as follow up materials to
reinforce the discussion of the ways that organizations can partner.
- Fact Sheets. A set of simple, colorful fact sheets,
in English and Spanish, that provide basic information about the importance of
preventing and controlling HBP and offer lots of tips for doing so. Each is
targeted at a different audience: young adults, mid-life and older adults,
African-Americans, patients, and physicians.
These sheets can be
offered to new partners as supports for their high blood pressure prevention
and control activities
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