[ProCOR] Case for Prevention: Heart Awareness Days at Jabulani Mall, Soweto, South Africa
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Case for Prevention: Heart Awareness Days at Jabulani Mall in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
Community members shopping and socializing in the new 100-store Jabulani Mall in Soweto, South Africa, are now benefiting from heart health screening and education on Heart Awareness Days, which take place on the first Friday of every month. The mall's first Heart Awareness day took place on 2 March 2007, and more than 200 people were screened for body mass index, weight, hip-weight circumference, glucose, cholesterol and microalbuminuria. A highly visible "heart health station" staffed by nurses and dieticians engaged passers-by in hourly educational presentations and displayed posters designed by dietician Sandra Pretorius, which promoted tasty, affordable low-glycemic "recipes of the day."
The monthly events are being implemented by the "Heart of Soweto" and are designed to increase awareness of heart disease and its risk factors, and to promote healthy lifestyles. The Heart of Soweto of the Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit is a study of the emergence of heart disease in Soweto to develop new ways to prevent and manage conditions affecting heart health. The mall activities are based on successful Heart Awareness Days organized by Heart of Soweto that took place at "the world's busiest taxi rank" across from the Baragwanath Hospital in 2006.
Dietary guidelines and recipes provided during the event are available online and the project hopes to print all the recipes distributed during Heart Awareness Days in a "Heart of Soweto cook book" later this year.
Online resources:
Dietary Guidelines (863 KB):
http://www.socru.org/content/downloads/Dietary_Guidelines.pdf
Soweto salad with a twist (464 KB):
http://www.socru.org/content/downloads/Diet_Soweto_Salad1.pdf
Stokvel three bean salad (712 KB):
http://www.socru.org/content/downloads/Diet_Stokvel_Salad.pdf
For more information on Heart Awareness Days 2006 and 2007 visit:
http://www.socru.org/heart_awareness_days.php.
Contact:
Karen Sliwa or Kemi Tibazarwa
Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit
Division of Cardiology
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
P.O. Bertsham 2013
Soweto, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 11 933 8197, Fax: +27 11 938 8945
E-mail: Karen.Sliwa-Hahnle@wits.ac.za
Case for Prevention: Heart Awareness Days at Jabulani Mall in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
Community members shopping and socializing in the new 100-store Jabulani Mall in Soweto, South Africa, are now benefiting from heart health screening and education on Heart Awareness Days, which take place on the first Friday of every month. The mall's first Heart Awareness day took place on 2 March 2007, and more than 200 people were screened for body mass index, weight, hip-weight circumference, glucose, cholesterol and microalbuminuria. A highly visible "heart health station" staffed by nurses and dieticians engaged passers-by in hourly educational presentations and displayed posters designed by dietician Sandra Pretorius, which promoted tasty, affordable low-glycemic "recipes of the day."
The monthly events are being implemented by the "Heart of Soweto" and are designed to increase awareness of heart disease and its risk factors, and to promote healthy lifestyles. The Heart of Soweto of the Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit is a study of the emergence of heart disease in Soweto to develop new ways to prevent and manage conditions affecting heart health. The mall activities are based on successful Heart Awareness Days organized by Heart of Soweto that took place at "the world's busiest taxi rank" across from the Baragwanath Hospital in 2006.
Dietary guidelines and recipes provided during the event are available online and the project hopes to print all the recipes distributed during Heart Awareness Days in a "Heart of Soweto cook book" later this year.
Online resources:
Dietary Guidelines (863 KB):
http://www.socru.org/content/downloads/Dietary_Guidelines.pdf
Soweto salad with a twist (464 KB):
http://www.socru.org/content/downloads/Diet_Soweto_Salad1.pdf
Stokvel three bean salad (712 KB):
http://www.socru.org/content/downloads/Diet_Stokvel_Salad.pdf
For more information on Heart Awareness Days 2006 and 2007 visit:
http://www.socru.org/heart_awareness_days.php.
Contact:
Karen Sliwa or Kemi Tibazarwa
Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit
Division of Cardiology
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
P.O. Bertsham 2013
Soweto, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 11 933 8197, Fax: +27 11 938 8945
E-mail: Karen.Sliwa-Hahnle@wits.ac.za
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