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Table 1 Description of interventions within the Hartslag Limburg cardiovascular prevention project.

From: Costs of the 'Hartslag Limburg' community heart health intervention

Intervention

Description

Nutrition

 

Nutrition party

Discussion meeting about healthy food.

Orientation in supermarket

Education about healthy food in a supermarket.

Lifestyle seminar

Seminar about healthy living, focusing on nutrition.

Personal dietary advice

Based on a questionnaire about dietary habits, people receive written personal advice about dietary changes.

Cookery course

A course about healthy cooking.

Debt assistance

Persons with debts are taught to cook a healthy meal on a small budget.

Tasty and Healthy

Health education programme carried out at a butcher's chain, consisting of several components:

 

1) Labelling meat with less than 10% fat

 

2) Posters and postcards with healthy recipes

 

3) Education about healthy meat provided by the butcher's staff.

Exercise

 

Walking guide

Guide showing 10 walking routes. Distribution via health centres, media etc.

Walking schedule

Guide showing 70 dates of guided walks.

Walking guide + schedule

Guide showing 10 walking routes and 70 guided walks.

Cycling guide

Guide showing cycling routes.

Exercise TV

Daily TV-guided aerobics programme, including information about the health advantages of exercising.

Walks/cycle tours

Organised walks and cycle tours.

Sports clubs

Weekly group sports activities.

Focus on Heart and Sports

Exercise education at schools, combined with introduction course at a sports club.

Smoking

 

'Congratulations' campaign

Campaign consisting of five components:

 

1) 80 commercials, each lasting 34 seconds, on a local radio station;

 

2) 80 billboards ;

 

3) Posters and postcards in health centres.

 

500 posters and 7500 leaflets were placed in 250 health centres;

 

4) Information packages about quitting smoking containing

 

8 leaflets and an application form for free nicotine patches (300 requests).

 

5) Free nicotine patches (50 requests).

Theatre show on smoking

Intervention consisting of 2 components:

 

1) A lesson at school about quitting smoking ;

 

2) A theatre show.

Stop smoking around kids

1) An information package containing 9 leaflets and a poster was

 

sent to all nursery schools and all health centres in the region;

 

2) Personal consultation by welfare worker with parents of

 

small children;

 

3) Four seminars;

 

4) Distribution of 10 billboards;

 

5) Distribution of 100 t-shirts with the text: 'no smoking around kids'.

Quit smoking campaign

Anti-smoking campaign using billboards, posters and leaflets.

Lifestyle in general

 

Lifestyle course

Six 3-hour sessions in which health aspects were discussed with teenagers.

Promotion stand

A display stand with health promotion materials.

Newspaper advertisement

Regular one-page advertisement in local newspaper with information about nutrition, smoking or exercise.