The Healthy Heart Task Force

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The Healthy Heart Task Force

• The Healthy Heart Task Force is a group of local
  organizations who work together to address the
  prevention of heart disease in the Dover and
  Rochester Communities.

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Organizations Involved

• Avis-Goodwin Community Health Center
• Frisbie Memorial Hospital
• Wentworth Douglas Hospital
• The Works Health and Fitness Center
• Your VNA
• The Homemakers of Strafford County
• Dover Department of Recreation
• Rochester Department of Recreation and Youth
  Services

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Task Force Beginnings

• Started with 4,500.00 to work with from the
  Foundation for Healthy Communities.
• Baseline data from a community survey.
• Health professionals with a goal of helping their
  communities.

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Project Goals

• Increase the number of residents who have had
  their cholesterol tested in the last 5 years.
• Increase the number of residents who engage in
  regular physical activity.

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Community Interventions Cholesterol Awareness

• Cholesterol Screenings
• Designed to raise awareness of national
  cholesterol testing and treatment recommendations
  in middle-aged men and women.
• Provided 3 screening events-
• Home Depot/Rochester on 10/4/03
• 37 participants
• Hannaford Brothers/Dover on 2/24/04
• 42 participants
• Fosters Daily Democrat/Dover on 3/23/04
• 41 participants

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Results Home Depot
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ResultsHannafords
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Results Fosters
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Sedentary Lifestyle

• Sedentary lifestyle No leisure time activity
  within a two-week period.
• Nearly 4 in 10 adults report no leisure time
  activity
• 1/3 gt 65 Y.O. are sedentary
• gt 1/3 Young people grades 9-12 do not engage in
  regular physical activity

Statistics generated from US Department of
Health and Human Services
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Get Moving

• 30 minutes a day
• 10 minutes at a time
• 5 days per week

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Interventions

• Physical Activity PSAs
• Walking Guide
• Smart Steps Program

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Walking Guide

• Downtown routes
• Nature trails
• Physical activity recommendations
• Safe walking tips

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Walking Intervention

• The average person takes between 3,000 5,000
  steps/day
• Wear a pedometer daily to count steps taken per
  day
• Establish a baseline
• 10-week program
• Set weekly progressive goals
• Work to 10,000 steps/day

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Community Education Efforts

• Media
• PSAs on activity levels and cholesterol checks
• Local cable talk show
• Newspaper articles
• Press releases

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Community Education Efforts (cont.)

• Community Briefing April 16, 2004
• Rotary Club presentations
• Materials made available during cholesterol
  screenings, health fairs, for agency newsletters,
  etc.