DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has announced that a Cardiovascular Disease Forum will be held during its 2016 annual conference, set to take place in November in Doha.
The forum will offer a brief overview of coronary heart disease, including its epidemiology, burden, and pressure on healthcare systems, outlining the distinction between illness prevention and management of acquired risk factors. It will also outline innovations in strategies to ensure prevention. These include lifestyle choices and broader tobacco controls, such as the impact of smoking bans in public places. Additionally, participants will learn about the potential policies and innovations that can be applied more broadly by policymakers from prevention to treatment. WISH, a global initiative of Qatar Foundation is healthcare community dedicated to capturing and disseminating the best evidence-based ideas and practices. The forum will further this aim by attracting some of the world’s foremost cardiology specialists. These include Professor K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation in India, who will chair the event.
Prof Reddy, who has served on various World Health Organization (WHO) expert panels and was formerly President of the World Heart Federation, said, “Cardiovascular diseases constitute the leading cause of death globally, and are now posing a major threat to the economic development of many nations because of the high burden of premature deaths and disability. Effective strategies for prevention across the life course, based on available knowledge of impactful interventions, are an urgent priority for health policy and systems. The forum will identify pathways for prevention of the disease, with a particular focus on averting risk in populations and reducing risk in individuals.” Despite significant government spending on research, the importance of preventing cardiovascular diseases has heightened. It is now considered the leading cause of death in the developed world and is set to become the number one cause of death in the developing world, the forum will show. The event will stipulate the need to allocate resources efficiently and make actionable recommendations to policymakers and public healthcare providers, to help ensure that patients have access to quality healthcare, and that the prevalence of the disease will be reduced.
Methods to optimise treatment and to uphold evidence-based medical guidelines, as well as strategies to minimise treatment costs, will also be deliberated.
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DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has announced that a Cardiovascular Disease Forum will be held during its 2016 annual conference, set to take place in November in Doha.
The forum will offer a brief overview of coronary heart disease, including its epidemiology, burden, and pressure on healthcare systems, outlining the distinction between illness prevention and management of acquired risk factors. It will also outline innovations in strategies to ensure prevention. These include lifestyle choices and broader tobacco controls, such as the impact of smoking bans in public places. Additionally, participants will learn about the potential policies and innovations that can be applied more broadly by policymakers from prevention to treatment. WISH, a global initiative of Qatar Foundation is healthcare community dedicated to capturing and disseminating the best evidence-based ideas and practices. The forum will further this aim by attracting some of the world’s foremost cardiology specialists. These include Professor K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation in India, who will chair the event.
Prof Reddy, who has served on various World Health Organization (WHO) expert panels and was formerly President of the World Heart Federation, said, “Cardiovascular diseases constitute the leading cause of death globally, and are now posing a major threat to the economic development of many nations because of the high burden of premature deaths and disability. Effective strategies for prevention across the life course, based on available knowledge of impactful interventions, are an urgent priority for health policy and systems. The forum will identify pathways for prevention of the disease, with a particular focus on averting risk in populations and reducing risk in individuals.” Despite significant government spending on research, the importance of preventing cardiovascular diseases has heightened. It is now considered the leading cause of death in the developed world and is set to become the number one cause of death in the developing world, the forum will show. The event will stipulate the need to allocate resources efficiently and make actionable recommendations to policymakers and public healthcare providers, to help ensure that patients have access to quality healthcare, and that the prevalence of the disease will be reduced.
Methods to optimise treatment and to uphold evidence-based medical guidelines, as well as strategies to minimise treatment costs, will also be deliberated.
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