The Need for Brazil to Focus on CVD
Abstract
Highlights
- Over the last 5 decades, CVD have been the leading cause of death in Brazil.
- Brazil has faced challenges to reassure an efficient health system for preventing CVD and for overcoming existing barriers to reduce CVD burden.
- Proposals to address those barriers were presented by the World Heart Federation in 2015 through the Roadmaps to achieve 25% CVD mortality by 2025.
- Implementation of the World Heart Federation Roadmaps has been already launched in Brazil by means of a comprehensive coalition including medical societies, civil society, private stakeholders, and government.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2016.10.001 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Published on: Dec 1, 2016
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2016 Diandro Mota, Antônio Cordeiro Mattos, Gustavo Oliveira, Alvaro Avezum, published by Ubiquity Press
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