Prevent and Control America's High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible. Partner With Us to Create a Healthier America: Real Possibilities for America's Community, Civic, and Faith-Based Organizations
This sheet contains ideas for activities and initiatives that community, civic, and faith-based organizations can undertake to combat high blood pressure in their organizations. This is a useful tool for those advocating high blood pressure prevention and control initiatives in these organizations and those considering undertaking these types of activities in their own community, civic, or faith-based organization.
Prevent and Control America's High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible. Partner With Us to Create a Healthier America: Real Possibilities for America's Community, Civic, and Faith-Based Organizations, NIH Publication Number 04-5253. 2004. Single sheet, 1 side. 8.5" x 11". Full Color.
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Originally published by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH Publication No. 04-5253). U.S. government work, public domain. Reproduced as archived reference, not current guidance.
Prevent and Control America’s High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible
Partner with us to create a healthier America
Real possibilities for America’s community, civic, and faith-based organizations
You can play a role in improving America’s health. Join the National High Blood Pressure Education Program at the National Institutes of Health and 46 other national organizations in the fight to prevent and control high blood pressure.
We have created “Mission Possible” to mobilize all Americans to reduce the more than 1 million heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure cases caused annually by high blood pressure. With your help, this Mission is Possible.
Improve the Health of Your Members: Use member communications, presentations, and meetings to highlight the role of heart healthy eating and regular physical activity as key ways to prevent and control high blood pressure.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Make Heart Health a Community Affair: Feature high blood pressure education and screenings when promoting community resources and reinforcing the connection between individual heart health and community health.
Organize Community Health Role Model Heart Days and Events: Healthy Behaviors: Promote heart health through Encourage heart healthy food community-wide events, selections and contributions including walks, health fairs, for events, following the DASH and screenings. and other healthy eating plans that help prevent and control high blood pressure.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health National High Blood Pressure National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Education Program
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/missionpossible
Archived page, reproduced from a 2006 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.