Salud para su Corazon (Health for Your Heart) National Dissemination

12-12. Increase the proportion of adults who have had their blood pressure measured within the preceding 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high.

27-1. Reduce tobacco use by adults.

22-1. Reduce the proportion of adults who engage in no leisure-time physical activity.

Prevent Development of Risk Factors

Through population and clinical approaches, increase the percentage of children and adults who engage in heart-healthy behaviors to prevent the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Detect and Treat Risk Factors

Increase the percentage of patients who have their CVD risk factors detected and who implement lifestyle and/or pharmacologic intervention and successfully control their blood pressure and cholesterol levels and weight to prevent the development of CVD.

1. Expand the marketing of Salud para su Corazón messages and materials.

2. Build partnerships with national promotores groups and others champions to train, implement, sustain, and evaluate the use of NHLBI's Salud para su Corazón materials including the newly developed Your Heart, Your Life promotores materials.

3. Implement outreach efforts at the community level.