Capella University Health Promotion Plan for Heart Disease

This presentation outlines a health promotion plan aimed at preventing heart disease, a leading cause of death in the United States. The plan focuses on educating the community, particularly older adults, about cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), their risk factors, and the importance of a healthy lifestyle. It details goals and objectives, including raising awareness, promoting self-management strategies, and facilitating early detection. The implementation phase includes educational materials such as booklets, posters, and presentations. The plan emphasizes the need for community involvement, partnerships with health authorities, and evaluation of outcomes, aligning with Healthy People 2020 goals to reduce mortality and improve the quality of life for those at risk. The plan aims to improve cardiovascular health by focusing on health education and public awareness, encouraging healthy lifestyles, and providing targeted interventions for individuals with risk factors or symptoms. The ultimate goal is to reduce the prevalence of heart disease and related conditions through a combination of preventative measures, early detection, and effective treatment.

HEALTH PROMOTION PLAN
For prevention of heart diseases

Why there is a need
 The leading cause of death for men, women and people of
most racial and ethnic backgrounds in the United States is
heart disease (cdc.gov, 2020).
 Thus, there is an urgent need for developing a health
promotion plan that aims at promoting and improving health
quality of the individuals in the community by implementing
appropriate strategies to reduce the prevalence of heart
diseases and other comorbidities.

Understanding cardiovascular
disease
 Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are a category of diseases involving
heart and blood vessels which include, acute coronary heart
syndrome (ACS), peripheral arterial disease, congenital heart disease,
cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease and deep vein
thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
 Strokes and heart attacks are acute complications caused as a result
of blockage preventing the blood from flowing to the brain or heart.

“Improving cardiovascular health”
Goals and Objectives
 Providing health education and increasing public awareness through
educational campaigns.
 Increasing their understanding on the determinants and risk factors
of health.
 Educating them on the importance of self-management strategies
and how to achieve them.
 Creating empowerment and advocacy among population.
 Promoting healthy lifestyle (Norris, 2017).
 Health promotion and screening.
 Encouraging them in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

“Improving cardiovascular health”
Goals and Objectives Contd.
 Creating awareness among them about the importance of implementing self-
management strategies.
 Facilitating early detection.
 Facilitating prevention of the health determinants and risk factors of health.
 Limiting disability (Kumar & Preetha, 2012).
 Enabling the delivery of high quality treatment and care.
 Working in partnerships with the work in partnerships with the target population so
that they can take proactive part in the planning of the health promotion plan.
 Public health authorities at regional, federal, territorial, and local level will be
involved to work in partnership to enhance the integration of ambitious
Cardiovascular progressive interventions and ensure an acceptable quality of life for
older adults with Cardiovascular disease and other risk factors like obesity.

Goals and objectives
Thus, the community based health promotion strategy “Improving
cardiovascular health” aims at:
 Establishing communication skills to enable effective communication.
 Taking effective action for addressing priority policies for prevention
of heart disease and other related acute conditions.
 Strengthening capacity.
 Evaluating impact.
 Working in partnerships with both Regional and Global agencies.

“Improving cardiovascular health”
Problem identification:
 Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are a category of diseases involving heart and
blood vessels which include, acute coronary heart syndrome (ACS), peripheral
arterial disease, congenital heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic
heart disease and deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
 Strokes and heart attacks are acute complications caused as a result of blockage
preventing the blood from flowing to the brain or heart.
 It has been reported that heart diseases is highly prevalent among adults aged
65 years and above in addition to other co morbidities like obesity, diabetes,
hypertension and others due to various reasons. One of the major risk factors for
cardiovascular disease is obesity. Thus, the target population of this health
promotion plan is older adults who are above 65 of years and suffering from
obesity.

“Improving cardiovascular health”
Goal setting:
The desired goal is enabling health improvement and meet the outcome targets such as reducing
mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease, reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases among the
target population along with other comorbid conditions like obesity, diabetes and hypertension through
SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) and monitoring the progress
towards achieving improved health.
Planning:
Educational materials will be delivered in order to increase awareness in the form of:
 Booklets containing information about heart diseases.
 Posters showing important information about cardiovascular health.
 Booklets that include information on the determinants and risk factors.
 Risk assessment toolkit.
 Pamphlet containing information.
 PowerPoint presentation.
 Videos.

“Improving cardiovascular health”
Implementation:
For healthy population
 Providing health education and increasing public awareness through
educational campaigns.
 Increasing their understanding on the determinants and risk factors
of health.
 Educating them on the importance of self-management strategies
and how to achieve them.
 Creating empowerment and advocacy among population.
 Promoting healthy lifestyle (Norris, 2017).

For population with risk factors or experiencing symptoms:
 Health promotion and screening.
 Encouraging them in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
 Creating awareness among them about the importance of
implementing self-management strategies.
 Limiting disability (Kumar & Preetha, 2012).
 Enabling the delivery of high quality treatment and care.

Evaluation:
Educational session outcomes in terms of progress made towards
Healthy People 2020 goals
 Healthy people 2020 aims at improving cardiovascular health and
enhancing the quality of life by enabling prevention, early detection,
identification and treatment of heart diseases, thus preventing the
risk of further complications and acute conditions like stroke, heart
attacks and repetitive cardiovascular events leading to a decreased
mortality rate of patients due to cardiovascular diseases. The health
promotion plan “Improving cardiovascular health” will work towards
the gals as set by Healthy people 2020 to promote health of the
target population.

References
 cdc.gov. (2020). Heart Disease Facts | cdc.gov. Retrieved 29 January
2020, from https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
 Hrafnkelsson, H., Magnusson, K. T., Thorsdottir, I., Johannsson, E., &
Sigurdsson, E. L. (2014). Result of school-based intervention on
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 Kumar, S., & Preetha, G. S. (2012). Health promotion: an effective tool
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publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social
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 Norris, K. C. (2017). Community-based Approaches to Cardiovascular
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