BASIC STRATEGIES

Promote the adoption of food service guidelines/nutrition standards, which include sodium

Promote the adoption of physical education/physical activity in schools

Promote adoption of physical activity in early care and education and worksites

Promote reporting of blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c measures; and as able, initiate activities that promote clinical innovations, team-based care, and self-monitoring of blood pressure

Promote awareness of high blood pressure among patients

Promote awareness of prediabetes among people at high risk for type 2 diabetes

Promote participation in diabetes self-management education programs

ENHANCED STRATEGIES

Environmental approaches to promote health and support and reinforce healthful behaviors

Access to healthy food and beverages

Food service guidelines/nutrition standards where foods and beverages are available. Guidelines and standards should address sodium

Supportive nutrition environments in schools

Physical activity access and outreach

Physical activity in early childhood education

Quality physical education and physical activity in kindergarten through 12th grade in schools

Access to breastfeeding-friendly environments

Health system interventions to improve the effective delivery and use of clinical and other preventive services

Quality improvement processes in health systems

Use of team-based care in health systems

Community–clinical linkages to support cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention and control efforts

Use of diabetes self-management education programs in community settings

Use of CDC-recognized lifestyle intervention programs in community settings for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes

Use of health-care extenders in the community in support of self-management of high blood pressure and diabetes

Use of chronic disease self-management programs in community settings

Placement of policies, processes, and protocols in schools to meet the management care needs of students with chronic conditions