The purpose of this section is to help guide the choice of community changes that your group will seek in each relevant sector of the community. To address the mission of reducing risks for CVD, your group programs, policies, and practices within schools, health care settings, worksites, or the broader community. Knowledge and skill-based strategies educate the public about causes, symptoms, strategies, etc., of public health issues. Providing opportunities and supportive environments promotes and encourages healthy behavior. Policy and regulation means establishing mandates that promote healthy behaviors.
Schools are a key intervention channel for influencing healthier behaviors in a positive way.
Elementary and secondary schools provide a structured opportunity to reach youth with interventions and health messages that can set the stage for a healthy lifestyle now and in the future. Health care settings have the unique opportunity to promote positive lifestyle behaviors. Role modeling of positive lifestyle behaviors could perhaps be the most influential role a provider can have on clients. The worksite channel is composed of those activities through which employers, unions, and insurers try to influence the health of workers in a positive fashion. The community as an entity can, in turn, promote health for all its members.