About National High Blood Pressure Education Month 2004

May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month 2004. This is the time each year when organizations across the country join together to increase public awareness of high blood pressure and promote improved prevention and control.

May 2004 is no different, except that the program wants to encourage even more organizations than usual, including businesses, community groups, civic and faith-based organizations, hospital outreach programs, public health departments, and workplaces to take action this May and conduct activities to prevent and control high blood pressure.

This Web site provides information and tools to help you plan and implement your National High Blood Pressure Education Month 2004 activities. It includes:

• Activity ideas for community groups and civic and faith-based organizations;
  
• A registry for you to share your activities with colleagues nationally;
  
• Fact sheets on preventing and controlling high blood pressure to use with the media and as handouts;
  
• Drop-in articles for newspapers, newsletters, or other print media;
  
• A press release to help you promote your activities;
  
• DASH recipes;
  
• High Blood Pressure Sunday;
  
• National High Blood Pressure Education Month radio features from the Healthbeat Radio Network.

Join the mission for National High Blood Pressure Education Month 2004 and the years to come. Your activities can help make high blood pressure America's Business and reduce illness and deaths from stroke, heart and kidney disease, blindness, and even dementia.