Activity Ideas Listed below are 12 ideas to help you kick off your National High Blood Pressure Education Month 2005 activities. Join the Mission and tell everyone what you are doing by registering your activities. *Please note: This link opens a new browser window. To return to this page, close the new browser window. - Hold a kickoff event to announce National High Blood Pressure Education Month. Invite local government officials and other community leaders, businesses, local health organizations, the media, and the public.
- Partner with a grocery store and local registered dietitians to give store tours to teach skills on reading food labels for low-salt choices. Go to Activities for Grocery and Pharmacy Customers for more ideas.
- Offer free cooking classes featuring DASH recipes. Offer tips on how to reduce salt intake and how to increase fruit and vegetable consumption..
- Work with local restaurants to offer heart healthy menu options or a "healthy selection of the day."
- Use the drop-in articles about high blood pressure to promote National High Blood Pressure Education Month in your organization's newsletter. Go to Activities for Community & Civic Leaders for more ideas.
- Provide free blood pressure screening at health fairs, local malls, and libraries. Use the toolkit fact sheets and the "Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible" fact sheets as educational materials.
- Work with local congregations and other faith-based organizations to celebrate High Blood Pressure Sunday by requesting placement of a drop-in article about high blood pressure in their bulletins or newsletters, offering high blood pressure screenings, and encouraging them to serve heart healthy snacks/meals at social functions.
- Work with local businesses to screen their employees for high blood pressure and offer heart healthy cooking demonstrations. Go to Activities for Businesses for more ideas.
- Start a neighborhood blood pressure watch program to provide blood pressure screening and refer those with high blood pressure to health care providers.
- Encourage your local radio stations to join the Healthbeat Radio Network to provide health news and information to the community.
- Offer speakers and materials to local schools and encourage them to teach their students about the importance of health lifestyles.
- Ask local health care providers, including MCOs, to distribute HBP materials to their patients and enrollees.
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Archived page, reproduced from a 2005 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.
