Communities Served - January 2005 (Greenbrier County)

Focus Area: Healthy People 2010 - Heart Disease and Stroke

• Flagship Objective 12.1: Reduce heart disease mortality to no more than 200 deaths per 100,000 population.
• Objective 12.2: Reduce stroke deaths to no more than 45 per 100,000 population.
• Objective 12.3: Decrease the proportion of adults who have high blood pressure to no more than 22%.
• Objective 12.6: (Developmental) Increase by 100% from baseline the proportion of females who are aware that cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) is the leading cause of death for all females.

Reference Card (pdf)
PowerPoint Show - Heart Disease & Stroke
Team Report (pdf)

This team planned to increase public awareness about heart disease and stroke through multi-media programming, as well as provide updated information on detection and evaluation of heart disease to local health care providers.

The team designed, developed, and implemented a Television Public Service Announcement on stroke awareness/hypertension which aired on WVNS-59 72 times and a Radio Public Service Announcement which was broadcasted by a local radio station throughout the month of February in recognition of Heart Month.

The team distributed the (JN-7) reference card from the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and a letter of intent to 161 Health Care Providers within Greenbrier County to provide them with current guidelines for heart disease and stroke.

The team researched, designed, and published a Heart Healthy Checklist in the Beckley Register Herald newspaper for increasing awareness of heart disease and stroke, encouraging self-evaluation of risk factors for stroke/heart disease, and seeking further professional evaluation by a health care provider if necessary.