Million Hearts Campaign
Obesity, hypertension, physical inactivity, and cigarette smoking are some of the risk factors that lead to heart disease and stroke which are considered to be “two of the leading cause of death in the United States” (CDC). According to the CDC, “2,200 Americans died every day” from heart disease and stroke, this situation becomes so prevalent that many health organizations decide to take part in the Million Hearts campaign which has for ultimate goal “to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017” (CDC). This campaign focuses on finding ways to decrease the occurrence of heart attacks and stroke among the high-risk population, African American and Hispanics, by facilitating access to healthcare, disease management …show more content…
as the action to “Commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health” (p. 206). The Million Hearts campaign does not only involves many organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health, Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) but it also join forces with other entity like, Walgreens, American Heart Association, United Healthcare and many more to help the population to be aware of the danger of heart disease and to show them the path to a healthy lifestyle. To fully achieve this huge goal of helping millions decrease their risks of heart problems, Million Hearts had to work with the main health organizations and make policies changes with the certain establishment, for example, promoting an environments 's with clean air by banning smoking in the certain area thus making Million Hearts a system level of …show more content…
This intervention is considered to be a community-level intervention because it provides teaching to health care workers (p.199). Additionally, this intervention will improve care for the high-risk population by offering health care provider with the necessary knowledge to help them pay more attention to the population at risk and provide teaching and more focus care (CDC).
The target audience in these videos is the population affected by high blood pressure. The videos are very informative, but not everybody has access to the internet or know how to operate a computer. It might be difficult for the older generation to access these videos.
Risk Assessment
1. What is the 10-year heart attack risk? (Briefly, introduce person* with age, gender, smoker status.
The 31 y/o male smoker’s 10-year heart attack risk is 5 %
2. What are the modifiable heart attack risk factors?
This 31 y/o male need to stop smoking, lose weight, reduce blood pressure, and manage blood cholesterol level by not only following and strict diet but also by exercising for at least 30 minutes three times a week.
3. What are the metabolic syndrome risk
Obesity, hypertension, physical inactivity, and cigarette smoking are some of the risk factors that lead to heart disease and stroke which are considered to be “two of the leading cause of death in the United States” (CDC). According to the CDC, “2,200 Americans died every day” from heart disease and stroke, this situation becomes so prevalent that many health organizations decide to take part in the Million Hearts campaign which has for ultimate goal “to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017” (CDC). This campaign focuses on finding ways to decrease the occurrence of heart attacks and stroke among the high-risk population, African American and Hispanics, by facilitating access to healthcare, disease management …show more content…
as the action to “Commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health” (p. 206). The Million Hearts campaign does not only involves many organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health, Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) but it also join forces with other entity like, Walgreens, American Heart Association, United Healthcare and many more to help the population to be aware of the danger of heart disease and to show them the path to a healthy lifestyle. To fully achieve this huge goal of helping millions decrease their risks of heart problems, Million Hearts had to work with the main health organizations and make policies changes with the certain establishment, for example, promoting an environments 's with clean air by banning smoking in the certain area thus making Million Hearts a system level of …show more content…
This intervention is considered to be a community-level intervention because it provides teaching to health care workers (p.199). Additionally, this intervention will improve care for the high-risk population by offering health care provider with the necessary knowledge to help them pay more attention to the population at risk and provide teaching and more focus care (CDC).
The target audience in these videos is the population affected by high blood pressure. The videos are very informative, but not everybody has access to the internet or know how to operate a computer. It might be difficult for the older generation to access these videos.
Risk Assessment
1. What is the 10-year heart attack risk? (Briefly, introduce person* with age, gender, smoker status.
The 31 y/o male smoker’s 10-year heart attack risk is 5 %
2. What are the modifiable heart attack risk factors?
This 31 y/o male need to stop smoking, lose weight, reduce blood pressure, and manage blood cholesterol level by not only following and strict diet but also by exercising for at least 30 minutes three times a week.
3. What are the metabolic syndrome risk