ABSTRACT
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major global public health crisis, being responsible for 30" of worldwide deaths in 2008 with an alarming 80" of these deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Currently, these risk factors and measures to deal with the CVD and other chronic diseases epidemic are greatly influenced by political, social, behavioural, environmental and economic determinants. And there by stressing the need for an effective consolidative multi-sectoral response to deal with the CVD epidemic and help promote socio-economic development in LMICs. This chapter determines which community-based interventions were effective in reducing cardiovascular risk in LMICs at national and regional level. Health promotion using the media and health education as a platform at the national and regional level was mainly used in the population intervention studies. The chapter introduces treatment guidelines that are applicable to an LMIC setting and providing training for health care providers are also an important element in the fight against CVD.
