Partner Toolkit

At a glance

With the support of partners, health professionals, and people like you, the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) is better able to spread the word about the importance of hypertension (high blood pressure) control.

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Overview

The social media messages and graphics in this toolkit can help encourage your audiences to take the evidence-based steps described in The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Control Hypertension (Call to Action). These steps can help save lives.

Help us inform others of what can be done to control hypertension by sharing these Call to Action resources on your social media pages and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

Together, we've got this!

Connect with us

Twitter: Follow @CDCHeart_Stroke and @MillionHeartsUS on Twitter to share our Call to Action tweets directly on your pages.

Facebook: Share Call to Action posts and resources directly from Million Hearts® on Facebook.

LinkedIn: Connect with other health care professionals and share the latest in hypertension control from the Million Hearts® LinkedIn page.

Shareable graphics

Download these graphics to use in your presentations and on your websites.

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Effects of high blood pressure on the body: stroke, cognitive decline, vision loss, heart attack, heart failure, pregnancy-related complications, kidney disease or failure, peripheral artery disease, and sexual dysfunction.
Effects of high blood pressure on the body.
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Goals and Strategies to Improve Hypertension Control. Logos of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Public Health Service. The strategies fall into three categories: Prioritize Control Nationally (illustrated by a golf flag with a heart and EKG graph line); cultivate community supports (illustrated by a pair of hands holding a heart); and optimize patient care (illustrated by a silhouette of a health care professional wearing a stethoscope. Prioritize Control Nationally: Increase awareness of health risks, recognize economic burden, and eliminate disparities. Cultivate Community Supports: Promote physical activity opportunities, promote health food opportunities, and connect to lifestyle change resources. Optimize Patient Care: Use standardized treatment approaches, promote team-based care, empower and equip patients, and recognize and reward clinicians.
Goals and Strategies to Improve Hypertension Control.

Social media graphics

Download these Call to Action graphics to share on your social media accounts.

For consumers

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Take action to make high blood pressure control a national priority. Learn more at cdc.gov/hypertensionCTA. We've got this!
Take action to make high blood pressure control a national priority.
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Did you know high blood pressure can affect the body in many ways? Find tools to control high blood pressure at cdc.gov/bloodpressure.
Did you know high blood pressure can affect the body in many ways?

For health professionals and partners

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Prevalence, control status, and treatment of hypertension among U.S. adults: U.S. adults with hypertension are at 45 percent, which is 108 million people. About 4 in 5 recommended lifestyle changes and prescription medication, about 87 million. About 3 in 4 are have uncontrolled hypertension, about 61 million. About 1 in 3 have untreated hypertension, about 30 million.
Did you know high blood pressure can affect the body in many ways?
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Hypertension is common. Hypertension control is not. Together, we can change that. Help patients commit to controlling hypertension. We've got this!
Hypertension is common. Hypertension control is not.
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High blood pressure is common. High blood pressure control is not. Together, we can change that. Champion high blood pressure control in your community. We've got this!
Hypertension is common. Hypertension control is not.
Download the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Control Hypertension to learn what works to get hypertension under control. cdc.gov/hypertensionCTA. We've got this!
Download the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Control Hypertension.

Resources

Hypertension Communications Kit: Use these social media messages, graphics, and resources to share about the dangers of hypertension and how to prevent and manage it.

Measure Your Blood Pressure: Empower your audiences to know and measure their blood pressure numbers regularly with these customizable tools.

Prevent and Manage High Blood Pressure: Encourage your loved ones, patients, and community to take steps each day to keep their blood pressure in a healthy range.

Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Change Package, Second Edition: Use this guide of process improvements that outpatient clinical settings can implement as they seek optimal hypertension control.

Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Champions: Read success stories and lessons learned from health professionals, systems, and practices that achieved success in blood pressure control.

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Content Source:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; About the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention