Health Awareness Day
- nzskaterz96
- Mar 17, 2016
- 1 min read
Overall goal
The goal of this World Health Day campaign is to reduce heart attacks and strokes.
Objectives
Specific objectives of the campaign are:
to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of high blood pressure;
to provide information on how to prevent high blood pressure and related complications;
to encourage adults to check their blood pressure and to follow the advice of healthcare professionals;
to encourage self-care to prevent high blood pressure;
to make blood pressure measurement affordable to all;
to incite national and local authorities to create enabling environments for healthy behaviours.
Target audiences
We encourage individuals and organizations working at international, regional, national, and community levels, in the public and private sectors and civil society, to coordinate and engage in activities for World Health Day.
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