World heart day 2015
World Heart Day is an annual event which takes place on 29 September every year. Each year’s celebrations have a different theme, reflecting key issues and topics relating to heart health.
Creating heart-healthy environments will enable us all to make the right choices that can reduce our risk of heart disease and stroke.
World Heart Day 2015 : HEART choices not HARD choices.
Healthy heart environments everywhere for everyone is the theme of 2015.
The places in which we live, work and play should not increase our risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Too often, society ‘;blames’; the individual for having CVD – you smoke, you eat and drink too much, you don’;t exercise! But the environments where we live, work and play can have a huge effect on our ability to make the right choices for our heart health – especially increasingly urbanized environments that have changed our lifestyles and diets.
LIVE – By encouraging individuals to make heart-healthy choices, such as choosing healthy food options, increasing physical activity and saying no to tobacco. Avoiding Overwhelming displays of tobacco and fast food and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
WORK – By encouraging activities in the workplace, such as promoting education in heart health and supporting active transport to work and school, increasing availability of health food and smoke free zones.
PLAY – By encouraging investment and use of active recreation areas, such as leisure facilities, sports centres and access to green spaces.
JOIN – the movement Together with World Heart Federation members, World Heart Day spreads the news that at least 80% of premature deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) could be avoided if four main risk factors – tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol – are controlled.
Everyone has the right to make heart-healthy choices wherever they live, work and play. But we all need to take action to make it happen.
