The policy agenda for the National Forum is intended
to be pertinent to the National Forum’s mission (provide leadership and encourage
collaboration among organizations committed to heart disease and stroke prevention)
and relevant to the recommendations and essential components found in
A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke (Action Plan).
Action Plan/Healthy People 2010 Goals
Goal 1 – Prevention of Risk Factors
Goal 2 – Detection of Risk Factors
Goal 3 – Early Identification and Treatment of Heart
Attacks and Stroke
Goal 4 – Prevention of Recurrent Events
In the fall of 2006, the Action Priorities Implementation
Group identified five policy priority areas and associated
Action Plan goals:
1)
Prevention of Risk Factors - Goal 1
2)
Chain of survival - Goal 1, 2, 3, 4
3)
Quality-of-Care – Goal 1, 2, 3, 4
4)
Disparities (Overarching Healthy People 2010 Focus)
5)
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention programs in all 50 states – Goal
1, 2, 3, 4
Prevention of
Risk Factors
Prevent disease and promote health by disseminating
policies related to Tobacco, Obesity, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Diabetes, Cholesterol
and High Blood Pressure.
Chain of survival
The Chain of Survival has four links: Early access
(call 911), Early CPR
Early Defibrillation (AED) and Early Advanced Care.
Quality-of-Care
Prevent first and second events; control
risk factors and diseases.
Expand the use of guidelines, reminder systems, preventive care, the chronic care
model, patient databases, and behavioral counseling.
Disparities
(Overarching Healthy People 2010 Focus)
Differences
in the burden and impact of disease among different populations, defined, for example,
by sex, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, place of residence,
or sexual orientation.
Heart Disease/Stroke
Prevention programs in all states
There are approximately 33 states with programs for
heart disease and stroke prevention.
The policy statement process for the National Forum
is open to full participation of the membership and ensures careful review by appropriate
National Forum leadership, implementation groups and committees.
Public policy statements adopted through this process provide a record of
the Association's stance on a variety of public health issues and reflect the diverse
interests of the National Forum membership.