Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels

Author: Jenkins, C. David

Source: Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change, Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change , pp. 179-199(21)

Publisher: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

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Better Health: A Handbook of Behavior Change is a one-of-a-kind manual for communities to reduce disease, disability, and premature death throughout the life cycle. This chapter of the book discusses how cardiovascular disorders place a major burden on the health care system and elaborates about the risk factors, protective factors an and prevention of how different cardiovascular disorders: inflammatory heart diseases, rheumatic heart diseases, pulmonary heart diseases, nutritional heart diseases, hypertension, ischemic disease and cerebrovascular diseases

Keywords: Health Promotion; Disease Prevention; Causes of death; Risk factors; Mortality; Education; Health Education; Cardiovascular diseases; Pulmonary heart disease; Rheumatic heart disease; Nutritional heart disease; Hypertension; Cerebrovascular diseases

Document Type: Miscellaneous

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