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Help make high blood pressure prevention and
control a community affair!
High blood pressure affects all Americans,
on both a personal and community level. By participating in Prevent and
Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible, you can help build a heart
healthy community. This can lead to longer, higher quality lives for your
friends and neighbors, reduced health care costs, and enhanced economic
strength for all.
Here are suggestions for how you can participate in
Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible. After
you've reviewed them, go to Materials to help you get started.
Community Events
- Seek support from local hospitals and businesses
to hold health fairs featuring high blood pressure screenings and promotion of
heart healthy community programs and services for your memberships, the media,
and the public.
- Engage local businesses and other community
partners by creating a special walk for high blood pressure, featuring prewalk
screenings and giveaways that promote heart healthy community programs.
- Promote heart health at health fairs and other
community gatherings. Include blood pressure screenings to help improve
personal and, in turn, overall community health.
- Promote heart healthy food options at special
events, community gatherings and holiday celebrations. Follow the DASH eating
plan to help prevent and control high blood pressure.
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Improve Member Health
- Use member communications, presentations, and
meetings to highlight the important role of heart healthy eating and regular
physical activity in high blood pressure prevention and control.
- Expand your current health education programming
with information on high blood pressure prevention and control. Expand programs
for special groups, such as older adults, with classes designed especially for
them.
- Make heart health education, including seminars
and screenings, a regular part of faith-based and civic activities to emphasize
the benefit of modest lifestyle changes in improving personal health.
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Visit Real
possibilities for America's community, civic, and faith-based
organizations, for more ideas, PDF, 69K
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