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Department of Human Services
About Us
We focus on partnerships and advancing policy to strengthen capacity, evaluate impact and take actions for a heart-healthy and stroke-free Oregon.
Vision
The Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP) Program vision is "In Motion Towards a Heart-Healthy and Stroke-Free Oregon".
Mission Statement
Oregon’s Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP) Program works in partnership with public and private sector groups and organizations from health care, work site, and community settings to affect policy and systems level change. The HDSP Program strives to address all points of opportunity, from prevention of heart disease and stroke in healthy persons to controlling risk factors, treatment of illness and prevention of recurrence in those who have had an event, as well as issues related to rehabilitation, long-term, and end-of-life care. 
Organization
Annual Performance Measures

Programs
HDSP works in partnership with public and private sector groups and organizations from health care, work site, and community settings to affect policy and systems level change.  
 
Projects the HDSP Program is currently active with include the Living Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, the Healthy Worksite Initiative, and the Tobacco Related and Other Chronic Diseases project.
 
HDSP priorities, as determined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include:
  • Controlling high blood pressure and cholesterol  
  • Recognizing the signs and symptoms of heart attack and stroke and taking appropriate actions  
  • Improving emergency response  
  • Improving quality of care  
  • Eliminating health disparities between population groups
 
Partners
 
Page updated: May 28, 2008

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