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N*E*W Educational Materials For Filipinos


August 19, 2004

N*E*W Educational Materials For Filipinos

It may surprise you to know that one out of three Filipinos die from heart disease. Filipinos have the highest rates of hypertension of all Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) groups in the United States. To improve heart health in Filipinos, NHLBI has created a N*E*W series of educational materials.

Click the links below to download n|e|w information about cardiovascular risk in the Filipino community, order the How-To Guide designed especially for community health educators and outreach organizations, and get fact sheets you can share with your Filipino patients.

Read Cardiovascular Risk in the Filipino Community: Formative Research from Daly City and San Francisco, California

This report presents focus group findings from interviews conducted in two Filipino communities. NHLBI worked in partnership with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum and West Bay Filipino Multi-Service Center to learn about the state of cardiovascular health knowledge and health behaviors of Filipinos. Also includes strategies for developing culturally appropriate heart disease prevention programs as well as language-appropriate community health assessment tools.

Available in an online only format with n|o c|h|a|r|g|e to download at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/heart/other/filipino.htm.


Start a Program with Filipinos Take It to Heart: A How-To Guide for Bringing Heart Health to Your Community

The guide provides everything needed to organize, market, implement, and evaluate an education and discussion program about heart health for Filipinos. It includes tips about choosing a leader and conducting sessions, handouts, a 30-minute slide presentation, and discussion questions on heart disease, its risk factors, and how to prevent the disease.

Item #56-111N.

Distribute the Filipinos Aspire for Healthy Hearts Fact Sheets

Written in Tagalog (a major language of the Philippines) and English, these fact sheets are based on the results of interviews with Filipino community members and key leaders. The easy-to-read leaflets feature colorful, culturally appropriate illustrations with folk worthy touches. Each gives tips on how to control a common heart disease risk factor. All use the Two T’s to Heart Health: (1) Treasure the gift of heart health and (2) Teach the people you love that a healthy heart means a healthy body.

First copy of any one title is f|r|e|e. for each additional copy, 25 copies of any one title, or 100 copies of any one title.

  • Keep Your Heart in CheckKnow Your Blood Pressure Number
    Order item #5077
  • Be Active for a Healthy Heart
    Order item #5078
  • Serve Up a Healthy LifeGift the Gift of Good Nutrition
    Order item #5079
  • Don't Burn Your Life AwayBe Good to Your Heart
    Order item #5080

Many of NHLBI's educational materials are available to download for f|r|e|e online at http://emall.nhlbihin.net/.


Archived page, reproduced from a 2008 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.