Question

Heart disease in African-American Community

• Identify two or three programs that have been in place to address the health concern or issue.
• Explain whether these have been effective. Explain how you know this and identify any gaps in the data if present.
• Identify a policy, if it exists, that aims to address the health concern or issue.
• Describe the impact of this policy. Explain whether it should be changed and why.

Answer 1

African American are at a higher risk of getting heart disease

Some of the programs to control high blood pressure and heart diseases among them are

• Childrens should know their Grandparents:"A guide to Healthy Heart" is a program initiated by The Association of Black Cardiologist (ABC) This program is in effective where all have an access to the site to view video online and gain knowledge and take preventive measure.This is sponsored by Novartis
• FAITH (Fostering African American Improvement In Total Health) .It is included in the community based program.The results predicts that African Americans have a brief knowledge on cardiovascular disease
• The Arkansas program focuses on the controlling of hypertension among these groups
• The Okhlahoma cardiovascular health program to attend emergency cases

The Healthy people 2010 is in practice ,The African American and Heart Disease provides screening ,awareness and mefuvak help to them.Public health action plan policy is for national,state and in local levels federally to address these issues.This can be useful if it is made robotic with technical availability so that the pave pace in decreasing heart diseases can be faster.