Launch of the WHO “Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2014”
21 January, 2015
Last Monday 19 January 2015, the World Heart Federation took part in the launch of the WHO “Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2014”. This global status report on prevention and control of NCDs – to which the World Heart Federation contributed – is framed around the nine voluntery global targets. The report provides data […]
CDC and National Cancer Institute release first report on smokeless tobacco
19 January, 2015
The first-ever report on the global use and public health impact of smokeless tobacco finds that more than 300 million people in at least 70 countries use these harmful products. The report, Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: A Global Perspective, has just been released by the CDC and the National Cancer Institute. There is a […]
British Heart Foundation release a new report on tobacco packaging
7 January, 2015
British Heart Foundation has just released a new report, “Standardised Packaging for Tobacco Products”. The report sums up recent evidence on the effectiveness of standardised packaging as a tobacco control strategy. The British Heart Foundation collaborated with the UK Center for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies, King’s College London, the Cancer Council of Victoria, the International […]
ICN calls for the involvement of the health workforce in NCD Commission report
1 January, 1970
The International Council of Nurses (ICN), a member of the Global Coalition for Circulatory Health, has released a statement together with the International Confederation of Midwives and Nursing Now, calling for the involvement of the health workforce in the WHO High-level Commission on NCDs report, which will be used at the Third United Nations High-level Meeting […]
Join us at the joint WCC/ESC congress in 2019!
1 January, 1970
The World Heart Federation is pleased to announce that our next congress, following WCC 2018 in Dubai, will be held in Paris in 2019, in conjunction with our members the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). This will be the first World Congress of Cardiology under a new model, which will see the congress taking place […]
Sharing the burden of CVD & Diabetes – a global collaborative effort
1 January, 1970
The sad story of diabetes as a rising epidemic is having a vast and measurable impact on health systems, on health economies and changing lives of patients and families living with this burden every day. The scale of this disease is immense and with more and more scientific evidence linking CVD and diabetes, this disease […]
PMAC 2020: Accelerating progress towards UHC.
1 January, 1970
PMAC 2020: Accelerating progress towards UHC.
Treating CVD patients in the time of COVID-19
1 January, 1970