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Advocacy

The Canadian Hypertension Coalition

Executive
Members

Partner Organizations

Current
Initiatives

Hypertension Trainee Committee

Position Statements

Terms Of Reference
For The CHC

The Canadian Hypertension Coalition focuses on strategy, policy development, knowledge translation, and advocacy for hypertension prevention and control.

The Canadian Hypertension Coalition is Hypertension Canada’s advocacy group. The purpose of the Coalition is to prioritize actions for the prevention and control of hypertension. The Coalition brings together various healthcare organizations in order to advocate to the government on behalf of the 7.5 million Canadians who live with hypertension. 
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the single most important risk factor for premature death and disability in the world.

Historically, Canada has been a leader in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control, but unfortunately hypertension control rates have declined over the past decade, especially for women. In part, Canadian success in hypertension prevention and control is likely due to the contributions of a national coalition of non-governmental and governmental health organizations that were active from 1986-2012.

In 2012, the governmental organizations withdrew from the coalition and there was much less focus on implementation and evaluation of population hypertension control, potentially explaining the decline in hypertension control rate. In 2023, Hypertension Canada revived the Canadian Hypertension Coalition and is now advocating for those who live with hypertension in order to improve the prevention and control of hypertension in Canada.

Executive Members

Dr. Kara Nerenberg

Dr. Norman Campbell

Dr. Ross T. Tsuyuki

Dr. Sachin Pasricha

Dr. Shelita Dattani

Manuel Arango

Patrice Lindsay

Partner Organizations

Canadian Society of
Internal Medicine

Canadian Postpregnancy Clinical Network

Heart and Stroke
Foundation of Canada

The Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guideline Endeavour(C-CHANGE)

Canadian Association of Paediatric Nephrologists

Canadian Cardiovascular Society

Public Health
Physicians of Canada

Canadian Association of Pharmacy Students and Interns

Canadian Nursing Students’ Association

The Kidney Foundation of Canada

Diabetes Canada

Nurse Practitioner Association of Canada

Current Initiatives

Proposal for the Canada Revenue Agency to consider validated blood pressure devices a medical expense eligible for tax-benefit
Letter to the Ministers of Health asking to implement a pan-Canadian monitoring system for major risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
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Letter to the Minister of Health to Stop Marketing Unhealthy Foods to Children
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Letter to the Minister of Health Encouraging them to Adopt the HEARTS program

Hypertension Trainee Committee

Purpose of Hypertension Trainee Committee
To enable student/trainee involvement in current hypertension advocacy initiatives, foster interest in hypertension advocacy nation-wide for the next generation of healthcare providers, and understand the changing landscape hypertension education to inform curriculum development.

Members of the Hypertension Trainee Committee​

Chair:

Sachin V. Pasricha

Research Lead:

Isaac Glassman

CFMS (Canadian Federation of Medical Students):

Zili Zhou

Family Medicine Representatives:

Joanna Walters

Daire Fitzpatrick

CAPSI (Canadian Association of Pharmacy Students & Interns) Representatives:

Lindsay Zhao

Marc Herrera

Meagan Wenzel

CNSA (Canadian Nursing Student Association) Representatives:

Makayla Mantla

Alisha D’Souza

Keirsten Smith

Shrusti Patel

Ongoing Initiatives

Environmental scan of educational curricula in medical schools, nursing schools, pharmacy schools, and family medicine residency to understand hypertension education across disciplines.

Position Statements

Hypertension Strategies

  • 2016 Hypertension in Canada
  • 2015 Hypertension Framework Update
  • 2012 Hypertension Framework
  • 2000 National Hypertension Strategy
  • 1986 Hypertension Strategy

Food & Nutrition

  • A Call to Action to Buy and Sell Healthy Foods and Beverages – Executive Summary.
  • A Call to Action to Buy and Sell Healthy Foods and Beverages – Consensus Recommendations
  • A Call for Action to Implement a Healthy Food Policy Agenda – Consensus Statement
  • A National Model for Defining Healthy and Unhealthy Foods and Beverages – Consensus Statement
  • Food Tax and Subsidy Policies for the Promotion of Healthy Diets – Policy Consensus Statement
  • Increasing Food and Nutrition Research, Monitoring and Evaluation – Call to Action
  • Minimizing the influence of commercial interests in healthy public food policies – Call to Action
  • Unhealthy diets are the leading risk to Canadians’ health and well-being. Now is the time to act
  • Restricting Food Marketing to Kids as a Policy Intervention for the Prevention of Chronic Disease Risk Factors – PowerPoint
  • Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children and Youth in Canada – Executive Summary.
  • Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children and Youth in Canada – Policy Consensus Statement

Dietary Sodium and Potassium

  • Fact Sheet and Call to Action on Dietary Sodium
  • Dietary Potassium
  • Letter to Health Canada to add “Potassium Salt” to the Permitted Synonyms for Food Additives Table
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