Re: Upcoming World Heart Day 2009 to focus on workplace wellness (7)
Hi Bola,
Thanks for bringing up this really important point: workplace wellness is not just about exercise machines in workplaces in Europe and the States and Australia/NZ...
As World Heart Federation has worked within the World Economic Forum "Working Towards Wellness" initiative, we have worked to drive home the point that workplace prevention of CVD has to go beyond HG to include the factory workers in China, Malaysia and India....a point about diversity and inclusion that we tried to get in the imagery of the World Heart Day clip.
http://www.world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/world-heart-day/work-with-heart-video
For World Heart Day this year we have collected examples of CVD prevention in different types of settings and will be presenting them in our online newsletter, Heartbeat. One of the themes that comes out strongly is the need to extend efforts to the "informal" work settings.
Since the workplace will also be the WHD theme next year, we hope this will stimulate people to send us information on different kinds of workplace interventions throughout the year, particularly those that are adapted to workplaces in low-income settings. So please keep us informed!
Alice
Alice Grainger Gasser | Project Manager | World Heart Federation | 7, rue des Battoirs | P. O. Box 155 | 1211 Geneva 4 | Switzerland | Phone +41 22 807 03 33 | Fax +41 22 807 03 39 | E-mail alice.graingergasser@worldheart.org | Web www.worldheart.org
The World Heart Federation is committed to helping people achieve a longer and better life through prevention and control of heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Join us at World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2010 | Featuring the 3rd International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke | 16-19 June 2010 | Beijing, China | www.worldcardiocongress.org
Thanks for bringing up this really important point: workplace wellness is not just about exercise machines in workplaces in Europe and the States and Australia/NZ...
As World Heart Federation has worked within the World Economic Forum "Working Towards Wellness" initiative, we have worked to drive home the point that workplace prevention of CVD has to go beyond HG to include the factory workers in China, Malaysia and India....a point about diversity and inclusion that we tried to get in the imagery of the World Heart Day clip.
http://www.world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/world-heart-day/work-with-heart-video
For World Heart Day this year we have collected examples of CVD prevention in different types of settings and will be presenting them in our online newsletter, Heartbeat. One of the themes that comes out strongly is the need to extend efforts to the "informal" work settings.
Since the workplace will also be the WHD theme next year, we hope this will stimulate people to send us information on different kinds of workplace interventions throughout the year, particularly those that are adapted to workplaces in low-income settings. So please keep us informed!
Alice
Alice Grainger Gasser | Project Manager | World Heart Federation | 7, rue des Battoirs | P. O. Box 155 | 1211 Geneva 4 | Switzerland | Phone +41 22 807 03 33 | Fax +41 22 807 03 39 | E-mail alice.graingergasser@worldheart.org | Web www.worldheart.org
The World Heart Federation is committed to helping people achieve a longer and better life through prevention and control of heart disease and stroke, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Join us at World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2010 | Featuring the 3rd International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke | 16-19 June 2010 | Beijing, China | www.worldcardiocongress.org
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