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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, 1988, 7(Suppl.), 297-303
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©
1988, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc.
The National High Blood Pressure
Education Program:
Measuring Progress
and
Assessing
Its
Impact
Edward
J.
Roccella
National High Blood
Pressure
Education Program
Office of
Prevention,
Education, and Control
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Michael
J.
Horan
Hypertension and Kidney
Diseases
Branch
Division of
Heart
and
Vascular Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National High Blood Pressure Education Program has been designed
to
translate the results
of
basic and clinical research
to
medical practice through
a program
of
education
for the
public, patients,
and
health professionals.
It
has continuously used health-education principals
of
media development,
patient education, social networking, community organizations, theories
of
social change,
and
program evaluation
and
measurement
to
reach
its
objec-
tives.
After
15
years, public knowledge regarding blood pressure
and its
sequelae
has
improved dramatically.
Key words: education, hypertension, hypertension prevalence, hypertension
control, hypertension awareness
The mission of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program
(NHBPEP) is to promote nationwide effects to detect, treat, and control
hypertension through education programs. It is now 15 years since this
Requests
for
reprints should
be
sent
to
Edward
J.
Roccella, National High Blood Pressure
Education Program, Office
of
Prevention, Education,
and
Control, National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute,
Box
120/80, National Institutes
of
Health, Bethesda,
MD
20892.
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