Achievement of Aims
The following lists the types of activities that would be needed in order to achieve the aims of the Network. This list is not comprehensive.
Enhance primary prevention
Include PAD in cardiovascular prevention programmes
Promote smoking prevention and cessation
Anti-obesity/diabetes programmes
Support population-based exercise
Increase awareness
Promote information about PAD in health professional groups and societies
Information about preventing PAD for governments and international, national and regional authorities
Population media campaigns about PAD
Extend the existing “PAD & Vascular European Days” into “PAD & Vascular World Days”
Promote early diagnosis
Promote how to diagnose PAD in health professional groups and societies
Incorporate information about PAD in medical education and other health professional training
Enhance secondary prevention
Promote secondary prevention of PAD in health professional groups and societies
Introduce incentives/re-imbursement for application of secondary prevention measures
Education of patients, especially in compliance with secondary prevention