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…resources in low- and middle-income countries where medical systems might be under strain and communities lack adequate access to medical treatment and coverage. WHF has the special opportunity to connect…
https://world-heart-federation.org/stories/covid-19-across-the-spectrum-spain/…of publishing the updated Global Air Quality Guidelines (WHO AQG), after the last release in 2005. This event will come after years of intensive research and deliberations with experts across…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/heart-and-lung-organizations-urge-who-to-publish-global-air-quality-guidelines/…together multi-disciplinary expertise and participation; the 2016 Emerging Leaders cohort, for example, brought together economists, researchers, nurses, tobacco control advocates and physicians providing varied approaches to a common challenge. …
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/emerging-leaders-application-process-postponed-until-early-2017/…to help policymakers establish sustainable mechanisms to fund and accelerate the comprehensive implementation of the FCTC. The study published in PLOS ONE aims to update and simulate country-specific indicators that…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/country-specific-costs-of-implementing-the-who-fctc-tobacco-control-policies-and-potential-financing-sources/…of projects with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations on the interaction between population dynamics and health. It is really at his point that I…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/meet-our-emerging-leaders-mariachiara-di-cesare-2018/…significant focus on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The new list includes new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), which are crucial for stroke prevention and for the management of atrial fibrillation, especially in low-resource…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/interview-with-mariachiara-di-cesare-on-whos-new-essential-medicines-list/…In 2006 with a group of colleagues, founded Peru Stroke Group, an organization dedicated to stroke training and prevention. In 2012, we founded The Cerebrovascular Diseases Research Center at INCN….
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/meet-our-emerging-leaders-carlos-abanto-2018/…to have a potentially fatal heart attack or stroke, according to a study of 575,000 people funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), published today in BMJ Open. Further reading:…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/bhf-urges-people-to-use-heart-age-tool-to-find-out-their-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke-this-world-heart-day/…health promotion; and human rights, community participation and voice. There will also be two cross-cutting themes. Firstly, inequality and its impacts on health and wellbeing; and, secondly, the use of…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/whf-emerging-leader-to-lead-new-institute-for-public-health-and-wellbeing-at-university-of-essex/The Joint PASCAR and Kenya Cardiac Society Congress 2021 was hosted in Mombasa, Kenya, from 22 to 25 November 2021 (with the World Heart Summit on 22 and 23…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/whf-at-the-15th-pascar-and-kenya-cardiac-society-congress/The World Heart Federation (WHF) drives heart health globally, committed to improving everyone’s access to care. WHF has spearheaded the creation of the World Heart Observatory, a one-of-a-kind global resource…
https://world-heart-federation.org/news/the-powerhouse-potential-for-health-through-the-world-heart-observatory/