World Heart Federation (WHF)
Different heart diseases
Fact sheet
08 Apr 2019
This fact sheet gives an overview of the different heart diseases and the distribution of different cardiovascular disease types in males and females.
Fact sheet
08 Apr 2019
This fact sheet gives an overview of the different heart diseases and the distribution of different cardiovascular disease types in males and females.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Apr 2019
Policy brief on building global capacity NCD prevention in LMICs. Highlights key focus issues and defines priority actions outlined by the DELPHI Study.
08 Apr 2019
This brief ‘key messages’ paper aims to better enable IUHPE Officers, Board Members, Regional Committee Members and Members to advocate for health promotion approaches to NCD prevention in a unified way – and importantly to enable the Organizat...
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a condition in which a blood clot forms most often in the deep veins of the leg, groin or arm (known as deep vein thrombosis, DVT) and travels in the circulation, lodging in the lungs (known as pulmonary embolism, PE)....
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a common type of arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat. Because the heart beats and contracts irregularly, blood flow may slow or pool and cause the formation of a clot. A blood clot that forms as a result of AFib is an exa...
Fact sheet
03 Apr 2019
Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel. The vessel may be any vein or artery as for example, in a deep vein thrombosis (venous) or a coronary artery (arterial). The clot itself is termed a thrombus. Once formed, a clot can slow...
Article
28 Mar 2019
This comment, published in the Lancet on Strengthening a constituency-based approach to youth engagement within the NCD movement, recognises not only the need for more institutionalised engagement but also the responsibility of youth organi...
Database
19 Mar 2019
When people think of tobacco, they often think of it as a public health problem, but it is a human rights problem as well. The marketing and sale of tobacco violate the right to health and life of people all around the world. ASH has been working to...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2019
The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) conducted a feasibility study to assess the public health need for – and the feasibility and potential public health impact of – expanding its mandate from HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C to patented essential me...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
25 Feb 2019
Mensajes clave de la UIPES, En los preparativos de la Reunión de Alto Nivel de las Naciones Unidas sobre ENTs Nueva York, Septiembre 2011
Briefs & Fact Sheets
25 Feb 2019
Messages clé de l’UIPES et du RÉFIPS en prévision du Sommet des Nations Unies sur les MNT à New York, en septembre 2011
Strategy document
20 Feb 2019
In this position statement the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) proposes that it is lack of investment in the necessary health promotion and primary prevention systems that best explains the lack of progress globally on...