The community-based protection programs constitute the essential strategy in controlling the cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The community-based protection programs were brought to the agenda in the US in early 1970s. The aim of the programs was to modify the CVD risk factors and also to reduce the morbidity and mortality of such diseases. The community-based protection programs are networks of comprehensive and integrated studies which aim at direct education of the general public, not limited to medical care, use the entire social communication networks, and which obtain support from the leaders in a public. Within the course of time, we observe that the community-based programs evolved in three generations. The goal of the first generation community-based protection programs comprised of applications that targeted the entire society, aimed at forming appropriate behavior in individuals, and contained multiple interventions. Even though the second generation community-based protection programs resembled the first one, their common points were that both were better planned and financed. The third generation community-based protection programs were adapted from the first and second ones, and are being implemented in communities with high prevalence of CVD risk factors, in city centers, in low-income societies, and in groups like school children. Consequently, the community health care policy-makers need to develop new, more effective, commonly accepted and applicable community-based protection programs for the solution of CVD issue.
Key words: Cardiovascular diseases, Community-based protection programs Article Language: Turkish English
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