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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(4):357-359; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn025
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Letter to the Editor

Delivering a cardiovascular disease prevention programme in the United Kingdom: translating theory into practice

Received February 12, 2008, accepted March 25, 2008

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In response to, and support of the Editorial by Pekka Puska in the August 2007 edition of the Journal (Health in all Policies. European Journal of Public Health 2007;17(4):328), this article describes the Heart of Mersey (HoM) cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme, which aims to improve the health of the local population by tackling inequalities via structural changes at regional, national and European level. Principally, the programme advocates that health improvement will be achieved primarily through healthy public policy, effective partnership and community integration.

Heart of Mersey: the programme
The HoM CVD Prevention Programme was launched in 2003 as a result of a visit to Finland in January 2001 to see how levels of heart disease have been dramatically reduced in North Karelia. The HoM programme focusses upon smoking and food, reflecting . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The epidemiological framework and evaluation concepts
Comparison with the North Karelia project
General discussion and conclusions
Ffion Lloyd-Williams1, Simon Capewell1, Robin Ireland2 and Christopher Birt2

1Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Liverpool. L69 3GB UK
2Heart of Mersey, Burlington House, Crosby Road North, Waterloo, Liverpool. L22 OQB UK

Correspondence: Ffion Lloyd-Williams, Research Fellow/Heart of Mersey Research Programme Manager, Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Liverpool. L69 3GB UK, tel: +44 (0)151 794 5118, fax: +44 (0)151 794 5588, e-mail: ffionlw@liv.ac.uk


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