Community Education for Cardiovascular Health

Parent participation in a treatment program for overweight adolescents

“…The dietary questionnaire employed in the Stanford Three Community Study (Stern, et al, 1976;Farquhar, et al, 1977) was used to estimate intake of calories, saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and cholesterol. The questionnaire consists of 47 closed-ended and pre-coded questions and is designed to characterize average or usual dietary behavior.…”

Primary Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease: Evaluation of Community Interventions

“…The resulting change in risk estimated by the logistic function was a reduction of 20% for Watson ville and 16% for Gilroy. Actual IHD occurrence in these communities subsequent to the introduction of the program has not been reported (54).…”

“…In one, the North Karelia Project, the public health model was applied in order to test the feasibility of reducing IHD incidence in a community known to have a particularly high rate of occur rence (48)(49)(50)(51). In the second, the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Project, the model was applied to several small Northern California com munities that had no remarkable IHD occurrence rates but were relatively self-contained with respect to medical and public health services (52)(53)(54). This facilitated an evaluation of the program because these communities were unaffected by medical and public health activities in adjacent areas.…”

How psychology can improve effectiveness and reduce costs of health services.

“…Several leading universities have established programs to improve the healthiness of persons in entire cities or counties. For example, a team of psychologists, physicians, and communications specialists at Stanford University developed a twoyear media plus counseling program that trained persons in two cities with populations above 12,000 to self-manage health-risk behaviors such as smoking and poor nutrition (Farquhar et al, 1977). At follow-up one and two years later, risk of heart disease had decreased substantially in the city receiving mass-media presentations of self-management techniques.…”

“…In contrast, behavioral risk factors for heart disease had actually increased in the control city (cf. Farquhar et al, 1977).…”