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This paper describes the evolution of efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease, from individual health education approaches to broader community education efforts and, finally, to comprehensive and integrated programs addressing environmental, policy, and individual behavior change. Policies are divided into two areas: legislation/regulation and organizational policy. Environmental strategies are measures that alter or control the physical or social environment. Dimensions along which these strategies might be implemented are provided. Policy and environmental approaches can be justified on economic, strategic, and theoretical grounds. Experiences from other fields and other countries provide a framework for conceptualizing cardiovascular disease prevention approaches.

THE COMPLELXITY OF POLITICAL RHETORIC OF POLITICIANS IN A POLICY-MAKING AND OPPOSITION ROLE IS EXAMINED. SPEECHES BY MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION PARTIES IN THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS FROM 1948 TO 1988 WERE SCORED IN TERMS OF THEIR INTEGRATIVE COMPLEXITY. RESULTS INDICATED THAT INDIVIDUALS IN A POLICY-MAKING ROLE MADE SPEECHES THAT WERE MORE COMPLEX THAN THOSE MADE BY INDIVIDUALS IN AN OPPOSITION ROLE. THE COMPLEXITY OF GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION RHETORIC WAS RELATED TO HOW MUCH TIME HAD PASSED SINCE THE LAST ELECTION. RESULTS ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO THE DIFFERENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITY OF THOSE IN A POLICY-MAKING AND OPPOSITION ROLE.