You are the public information officer at a local health department. Recently, the state department of health announced a significant increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths statewide.

The local media has contacted your office requesting a meeting to discuss CVD, and to learn what is being done in your community to reduce the number of deaths.

The health officer in your department has asked you to prepare an issue briefing that describes the CVD problem in your community.

1. Collect information about heart disease risk factors in your community, by going to the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s County Health Rankings & Roadmaps website to locate data from the county of your residence at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org

2. Scan your county’s community health assessment for those risk factors associated with CVD. Risk factors might include tobacco smoking, overweight and obesity, physical activity/inactivity, access to exercise facilities/opportunities, access to healthy foods, and the prevalence of individuals living with chronic conditions associated with CVD, including diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

3. Using the statistics you collected, prepare an issue briefing that defines cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, what the statistics indicate about risk factors in your community, what can be done to reduce these risks, and one recommendation for improving outcomes in your community. Use the Issue Brief Template Click for more options to organize your assignment.

Answer:

Issue Brief

Date:

Prepared By: public information officer

Point of Contact:

Issue: Heart disease risk factors

Summary:

There are various risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which are behavior, habits, critical conditions, circumstances that can increase risk of developing this type of disease. There is some common reason behind this disease, which are lack of exercise, family history, unhealthy eating, age, diabetes, and smoking (ADA, 2019).

Background:

• It is a huge disease that can affect the heart and circulatory system.
• It is a problem for persons, which are less effective for basic things, such as exercise, bad habits, and many others(World-heart-federation, 2017).   
• It can create a critical condition of the patients

Rationale and Analysis:

• Most of the death is premature death according to national center for health statistics.

Source: (Remington, et al., 2015)

• According to the survey, behaviors have changed because of various things, which is not good for the heart.

Source: (Remington, et al., 2015)

• it is a huge problem and it can affect the future of people.

Recommended Action:

• there are various things to overcome the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, such as motivation for exercise, diet control, good habits, and many others. There are some risks, which can be controlled using medical and psychological practices, such as exercise, diet, smoking, and many others. However, some problems cannot reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, such family history, diabetes, and more(Remington, et al., 2015).      
• Most of the risks can cover using a different method, like exercise and other diet-related issues. I want to suggest reduce use of tobacco, which is a strong reason behind cardiovascular disease.

References

ADA, 2019. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors. [Online] Available at: https://ada.com/cardiovascular-disease-risk-factors/[Accessed 19 October 2019].

Remington, P. L., Catlin, B. B. & Gennuso, K. P., 2015. The County Health Rankings: rationale and methods. Population health metrics, 13(1), p. 11.

World-heart-federation, 2017. Risk factors. [Online] Available at: https://www.world-heart-federation.org/resources/risk-factors/
[Accessed 19 October 2019].