Health promotion model for "Heart Smart": the medical school, university, and community.
This paper provides the rationale, design, description, and evaluation of a unique comprehensive health promotion model, wherein an interdisciplinary group of professionals from three organizations--a medical school, university, and community collaborated to implement a cardiovascular (CV) health project entitled "Heart Smart" on a total school environment (K-6). Preliminary program findings are reported. Major lessons learned are also discussed which suggest a number of recommendations for the successful adoption of a school-based CV health intervention. The expertise and interaction of a multidisciplinary group of health care, research, and educational professionals has been a successful endeavor which has greatly enhanced the quality of the health promotion model for "Heart Smart." More comprehensive models such as "Heart Smart," which intervene on a total school environment, are vital to the reduction of CV disease in the United States and abroad.
D000293:Adolescent; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012577:Schools, Medical; D014495:Universities