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Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised - Vinnie Jones
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Heart disease represents yet another failure of awareness campaigns
Did you know that heart disease kills ten times more women than breast cancer? Maybe you do, in which case, go you! But a lot of people do not, because breast cancer awareness and advocacy has sucked up a lot of the attention when it comes to health education for women in the United States. This is a problem, because women are at risk of a range of serious conditions, not just cancer, and heart disease is a leading threat to their health. Whatever education and awareness campaigns we’re using are clearly inadequate, and they’re even more inadequate than you think.
Breast cancer is obviously a serious issue, but at this point, the vast majority of patients (women aren’t the only people…
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Heart Failure Awareness
The awareness campaign is led by the Heart Failure Patient Council of the Global Heart Hub. The Heart Failure Patient Council is an alliance of patient organisations from across the globe, working with heart failure patients and their carers. A priority of the council is to raise awareness of heart failure, promote public and healthcare education and advocate for policy action in an insufficiently recognised and increasingly burdensome disease area.
Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day
The goal of the annual awareness day on February 22 is to increase recognition of the specific risks and symptoms of heart valve disease, improve detection and treatment, and ultimately save lives. While heart valve disease can be disabling and deadly, available treatments can save lives, making education and awareness particularly important.
World Heart Day
On World Heart Day, 1000s around the world united to spread awareness of heart health. Find out more about the #UseHeart campaign.
‘Heart for a heart’
‘Heart for a heart’ campaign for British Heart Foundation aims to get people to upload their own heart-inspired artwork
A Decade of Lost Ground in the Awareness of Heart Disease Symptoms in Women: A Call to Action
This concerning marked decline in awareness of heart disease as the LCOD especially in racial/ethnic minorities despite decades of educational and advocacy interventions, should spark a new conversation around providing culturally sensitive care and education particularly to those from the most vulnerable of socio-economic backgrounds.
Even With Heart Disease Awareness on the Rise, Prevention Remains Critically Important for American Women
The Heart Truth campaign urges women to take action.
It Saves Lives. It Can Save Money. So Why Aren’t We Spending More on Public Health?
Funding for health campaigns is surprisingly low when you consider they’re often so valuable that they pay for themselves.
What Good Is 'Raising Awareness?'
Just being educated about diseases isn't enough to make people healthier.
Women’s heart disease: an awareness campaign fail?
I’ve been thinking a lot about awareness-raising lately because of a bombshell report from the 2019 American Heart Association National Survey released this month. Among other completely demoralizing findings, this report found that women’s awareness of their most common heart attack risks and symptoms has significantly declined from a prior survey done 10 years earlier. How is that even possible? .
‘My Heart, Your Heart’, Who’s Looking After Yours?
... while we recognize the heart shape as a symbol of romantic love and affection the world over, we are less aware of the risks to our heart and how to read early warning signs in ourselves and in others.
Half of Americans have heart disease, but there are easy ways to reduce your risk
Three strategies to improve your cardiovascular health.
Heart Disease Strikes Back Across the U.S., Even in Healthy Places
Middle-aged people are increasingly dying from heart disease in cities across the country—including exercise-mad Colorado
Heart disease used to be an ailment of the rich. But it’s now striking the world’s poor.
Heart disease is responsible for a third of all global deaths, and most of them are in the developing world.
Hidden Heart Disease Is The Top Health Threat For U.S. Women
Greater awareness and advances in detection and treatment have dramatically decreased breast cancer deaths over the past few decades, Bairey Merz explains. But heart disease now claims the life of 1 in every 4 women. Many women with heart disease could benefit from effective treatment, including aspirin, statins, beta blockers and the like, says Dr. Laxmi Mehta, a cardiologist at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. But they can be helped only if they are diagnosed.
Should Coke Talk About Heart Health?
Soft drink makers increasingly are being accused of contributing to the nation’s obesity epidemic. Now a consumer advocacy group is questioning whether Coca-Cola should be allowed to sponsor a national heart health campaign.
Stop Raising Awareness Already
It’s time for activists and organizations to adopt a more strategic approach to public interest communications.
Heart disease represents yet another failure of awareness campaigns
Did you know that heart disease kills ten times more women than breast cancer? Maybe you do, in which case, go you! But a lot of people do not, because breast cancer awareness and advocacy has sucked up a lot of the attention when it comes to health education for women in the United States.
#29DaysOfHeart
#29DaysOfHeart is WomenHeart’s annual social media campaign to raise awareness about heart disease in African-American women. Black History Month and Heart Month both occur in February and we want the opportunity to celebrate both! #29DaysOfHeart uplifts the voices of Black women. It also shines a spotlight on the disproportionate impact of heart disease among African-American women, and therefore the need to raise awareness about risk factors and heart healthy living.
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