From: Costs of the 'Hartslag Limburg' community heart health intervention
Intervention | Description |
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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. |