Priority

Focus

Action Needed

Effective

communication

Prevention and

public health

Communicate to legislators, policymakers, and the public at large the nation’s vital stake in sustaining and building upon the prevention and public health provisions in the Affordable Care Act, e.g., the National Prevention Council, Prevention and Public Health Fund, and others.

Strategic leadership,

partnerships, and

organization

Public health?healthcare

collaboration and

integration

Integrate public health and health care into a public health system effective in supporting community-level prevention policies and programs, e.g., the Million Hearts Initiative.

Taking action

Cardiovascular

health and health

equity

Develop, advocate, and implement policies, programs, and practices aimed improve the nation’s cardiovascular health in terms of the Healthy People 2020 objectives and AHA metrics―addressing tobacco use, overweight/obesity, activity, healthy diet (including reduction in sodium and artificial trans fat intake), blood pressure, cholesterol, and fasting plasma glucose); and ensure that all such actions reach everyone, especially those most vulnerable due to

unfavorable social and environmental conditions.

Building capacity

Prevention

workforce

Make full use of resources for education and training of the prevention workforce at local, state, national, and global levels.

Evaluating

impact

Monitoring

cardiovascular

health

Advocate for a comprehensive, robust and timely system of monitoring cardiovascular events (heart attacks, stroke, heart failure) and cardiovascular health metrics for the US population, including full adoption of the

“developmental” heart disease and stroke objectives of Healthy People 2020.

Advancing policy

Research on critical questions to advance policy and practice

Pursue needed implementation and dissemination science and health economics research, including needed education and training for this research, in support of health policy development, implementation, and dissemination.

Engaging in regional and global

collaboration

Initiatives linking

CVD and NCD

prevention

Undertake collaborations in major regional and global cardiovascular health and NCD initiatives, in the interest of improving cardiovascular health and reducing the burden of NCDs in the United States and globally.