Best practice – News article
1 January, 1970
World Heart Federation President Salim Yusuf leads Hope-3 trials on the prevention of heart attacks and strokes. The research team from the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences have identified three simple methods to prevent heart attacks and stroke, in a study of more than 12,000 patients from 21 […]
Best practice – toolkit
1 January, 1970
Supporting activators on Physical Activity and Healthier Lifestyles This toolkit has been produced as part of the Children in the City project for Romania, coordinated by the World Heart Federation (WHF) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and implemented in Romania by the Romanian Heart Foundation (RHF). The Children in the City Campaign […]
he 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) to be held for the first time in Africa where tobacco industry interference is endemic T
1 January, 1970
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; South Africa Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and WHO Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases Michael R. Bloomberg to Participate in The World´s Leading Conference on Tobacco Control The 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) to be held for the first time in Africa where tobacco industry interference […]
CardioAlex18
1 January, 1970
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.