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Working with members and partners, the World Heart Federation has produced four fact sheets to help members make the case for promoting healthy diet and physical activity as a priority for policy, school curricula, and community activity.
Tobacco is responsible for close to five million deaths per annum globally. As an advocate of the reduction of the prevalence of risk factors associated with CVD deaths, the World Heart Federation is naturally in favour of strong limitations to active and passive smoking.
"One World, One Home, One Heart" theme was celebrated all around the world last September.
Find out what happened for World Heart Day in your region and send us your reports and pictures of World Heart day activities >
The World Heart Federation rheumatic heart disease network (RHDnet) is an international resource developed for clinicians, health practicioners and policy-makers in countries where the disease is still common.
AF AWARE (Atrial Fibrillation AWareness And Risk Education) is an international awareness campaign dedicated to gaining greater recognition of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm).
Developing targets for NCDs: As the saying goes, “what gets measured gets done” and the discussions at the WHO have brought us one step closer to being able to monitor and track progress made on NCDs. However, physical inactivity is noticeably missing from the current set of proposed targets.
The World Heart Federation is the world's only global body dedicated to leading the fight against heart disease and stroke. We do this via a united community of almost 200 member organizations from more than 100 countries.