Community stroke knowledge: a new information strategy using a joint project of the public health service and the hairdressers’ guild of the Wesel district

摘要

The public health programme “Healthy Lower Rhine…against Stroke” is aimed at improving the population’s knowledge about stroke and thus at reducing the prehospital phase in patients with suspected stroke. First evaluation results indicate that apart from providing information through the mass media, there is an urgent need to further develop the face-to-face communication approach. This has to be achieved by efficient but also effective means, given that financial and personnel resources are scarce.