[ProCOR] Re: Saturday May 14, 2005: World Hypertension Day (3)
Dear Drs Campbell and Chockalingam,
Thank you both for your important messages encouraging local action to
diagnose and treat hypertension. I am currently attending the Oxford Health Alliance led by Professor Derek Yach at Yale University.
I am happy to report that many of the most creative and successful projects have focused on hypertension, including one project led by Shakuntala Chockalingam in Southern India (previously introduced on ProCOR) and a study led by Nguyen Ngoc-Quang in the Hatay Province
Viet Nam. This project addresses community perception and culture dependent perceptions about hypertension and plans to use these as the basis of a model for intervention. This study points out clearly that the traditional medical model to understand and treat hypertension may not be meaningful within the community.
In the project we are doing at the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Dorchester at Codman Academy, teaching students to take blood pressure has become an important component of our nutrition course. We found that once the students engaged around the way to take an accurate blood pressure they became much more interested in learning about the nutritional contributors to hypertension (especially salt) and its sequelae. I was amazed to learn how many of the students had previously felt that getting hypertension was inevitable given their family histories. At our final class the students will have an opportunity to take blood pressures of their invited guests.
All of these projects will be detailed on the web site that will be set up for the Oxford Health Alliance.
With best regards,
Susanna Bedell
-----Original Message-----
From: Arun Chockalingam
Sent: May 14, 2005 11:30 AM
To: procor@healthnet.org, ncampbel@ucalgary.ca
Cc: Arun Chockalingam
Subject: [ProCOR] Re: Saturday May 14, 2005: World Hypertension Day (2)
Dear Dr. Campbell:
Congratulations for your wise article below. Thank you for being a
champion of World Hypertension Day and calling for people to share their
experience, and more importantly to become actively involved at the
community level to improve awareness of, management and control of high
blood pressure (hypertension).
Your advice "Think Globally Act Locally" is very fitting since
hypertension- a silent killer - has no discrimination between the rich
(country) and the poor (country); young and the old; male and female;
and between races. Your two apt examples of how community resources can
be mobilized, at a relatively less cost, to improve awareness can be
replicated in any country.
Hypertension control requires partnership and dedicated efforts at
multiple levels. Community control is the beginning; professional
commitment to measure BP of patients at every opportunity they see them
and to advise the patients on the importance of adherence; political
will to provide necessary environment for the citizens to adopt
appropriate lifestyle changes are necessary elements.
I look forward to reading from ProCOR readers what they have done in
their own communities (small or big) to raise awareness and bring the
population level BP down.
Thank you for your leadership and your Call for Action.
With kind regards,
Arun
Arun Chockalingam, MS, PhD, FACC
Associate Director
CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
& Clinical Professor of Health Care & Epidemiology, UBC
1081 Burrard Street, Room 553
Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604-806-8932
Fax: 604-806-8935
e-mail: achockalingam@mrl.ubc.ca
>>> ncampbel@ucalgary.ca 05/12/05 8:33 AM >>>
Greetings,
World Hypertension Day--May 14, 2005--is an opportunity to increase
public and
health care professional awareness about hypertension. The World Health
Organization estimates high blood pressure to be the third leading
attributable
risk for death in the world. Hypertension is easily detectable and is
treatable
by lifestyle changes and inexpensive drugs. Further, hypertension is
preventable
by eating a healthy diet, obtaining regular physical activity and
avoiding heavy
alcohol consumption. The WHO also advocates public policy to reduce the
addition
of salt to food to prevent and treat hypertension.
In celebration of World Hypertension Day, ProCOR is profiling innovative
programs in communities worldwide that have been implemented to reduce
the
burden of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors We
encourage the
ProCOR network to share information about the programs that are at work
in their
communities.
Two Canadian community-based programs to screen for hypertension may be
of
interest to ProCOR readers.
In one program, fire fighters have been trained to accurately measure
blood
pressure and fire stations are open to the public to have their blood
pressure
measured. Follow-up advice is provided based on the readings obtained.
Another program trains elderly retired persons about hypertension and
how to
measure blood pressure. The trained elders conduct screenings in
pharmacies. It
is important to note that all screening programs need to be able to
counsel
patients on how to obtain further assessments and advice.
Let's make World Hypertension Day a success by starting to work towards
community programs to prevent hypertension and to optimally manage those
with
hypertension in out communities. Please share with us your programs
their
successes and lessons learned.
Norm Campbell, MD
Contributing Editor
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Thank you both for your important messages encouraging local action to
diagnose and treat hypertension. I am currently attending the Oxford Health Alliance led by Professor Derek Yach at Yale University.
I am happy to report that many of the most creative and successful projects have focused on hypertension, including one project led by Shakuntala Chockalingam in Southern India (previously introduced on ProCOR) and a study led by Nguyen Ngoc-Quang in the Hatay Province
Viet Nam. This project addresses community perception and culture dependent perceptions about hypertension and plans to use these as the basis of a model for intervention. This study points out clearly that the traditional medical model to understand and treat hypertension may not be meaningful within the community.
In the project we are doing at the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Dorchester at Codman Academy, teaching students to take blood pressure has become an important component of our nutrition course. We found that once the students engaged around the way to take an accurate blood pressure they became much more interested in learning about the nutritional contributors to hypertension (especially salt) and its sequelae. I was amazed to learn how many of the students had previously felt that getting hypertension was inevitable given their family histories. At our final class the students will have an opportunity to take blood pressures of their invited guests.
All of these projects will be detailed on the web site that will be set up for the Oxford Health Alliance.
With best regards,
Susanna Bedell
-----Original Message-----
From: Arun Chockalingam
Sent: May 14, 2005 11:30 AM
To: procor@healthnet.org, ncampbel@ucalgary.ca
Cc: Arun Chockalingam
Subject: [ProCOR] Re: Saturday May 14, 2005: World Hypertension Day (2)
Dear Dr. Campbell:
Congratulations for your wise article below. Thank you for being a
champion of World Hypertension Day and calling for people to share their
experience, and more importantly to become actively involved at the
community level to improve awareness of, management and control of high
blood pressure (hypertension).
Your advice "Think Globally Act Locally" is very fitting since
hypertension- a silent killer - has no discrimination between the rich
(country) and the poor (country); young and the old; male and female;
and between races. Your two apt examples of how community resources can
be mobilized, at a relatively less cost, to improve awareness can be
replicated in any country.
Hypertension control requires partnership and dedicated efforts at
multiple levels. Community control is the beginning; professional
commitment to measure BP of patients at every opportunity they see them
and to advise the patients on the importance of adherence; political
will to provide necessary environment for the citizens to adopt
appropriate lifestyle changes are necessary elements.
I look forward to reading from ProCOR readers what they have done in
their own communities (small or big) to raise awareness and bring the
population level BP down.
Thank you for your leadership and your Call for Action.
With kind regards,
Arun
Arun Chockalingam, MS, PhD, FACC
Associate Director
CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
& Clinical Professor of Health Care & Epidemiology, UBC
1081 Burrard Street, Room 553
Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604-806-8932
Fax: 604-806-8935
e-mail: achockalingam@mrl.ubc.ca
>>> ncampbel@ucalgary.ca 05/12/05 8:33 AM >>>
Greetings,
World Hypertension Day--May 14, 2005--is an opportunity to increase
public and
health care professional awareness about hypertension. The World Health
Organization estimates high blood pressure to be the third leading
attributable
risk for death in the world. Hypertension is easily detectable and is
treatable
by lifestyle changes and inexpensive drugs. Further, hypertension is
preventable
by eating a healthy diet, obtaining regular physical activity and
avoiding heavy
alcohol consumption. The WHO also advocates public policy to reduce the
addition
of salt to food to prevent and treat hypertension.
In celebration of World Hypertension Day, ProCOR is profiling innovative
programs in communities worldwide that have been implemented to reduce
the
burden of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors We
encourage the
ProCOR network to share information about the programs that are at work
in their
communities.
Two Canadian community-based programs to screen for hypertension may be
of
interest to ProCOR readers.
In one program, fire fighters have been trained to accurately measure
blood
pressure and fire stations are open to the public to have their blood
pressure
measured. Follow-up advice is provided based on the readings obtained.
Another program trains elderly retired persons about hypertension and
how to
measure blood pressure. The trained elders conduct screenings in
pharmacies. It
is important to note that all screening programs need to be able to
counsel
patients on how to obtain further assessments and advice.
Let's make World Hypertension Day a success by starting to work towards
community programs to prevent hypertension and to optimally manage those
with
hypertension in out communities. Please share with us your programs
their
successes and lessons learned.
Norm Campbell, MD
Contributing Editor
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Chief, ProCOR
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(www.healthnet.org), The Global Health Information Network.
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