Community Health Promotion Plan For The City Of Hartford

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Community Health Promotion Plan for the city of Hartford I have chosen to focus my paper on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke within the homeless population. I have been encountered with many residents at the homeless shelter I am currently working at with severe hypertension. Some of the residents have expressed little or no interest in learning how this can affect their long term health. It seems necessary to provide a health promotion plan in helping this community better manage their risk factors in preventing CVD or even a stroke from happening. According to Heart.org, Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and accounts for more than 17.3 million deaths per year and is expected to grow to over 23.6 million by the year 2030 (Heart Disease, Stroke and Research At-a-Glance, 2016). Heart disease and stroke is a major concern both locally and nationwide, Healthy People 2020 stated, “heart disease is the leading cause of death, and that stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S., together they are the most widespread and costly facing the nation today” (Healthypeople.gov).
In this country there is an increase in the homeless population in both in rural and urban areas in the United States. This is due to the increase in housing prices, and the rise in poverty level in this country. Studies have shown that, “poverty has been deemed one of the major societal determinants of cardiovascular disease worldwide” (Charlotte).
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