Impacts on Heart Disease in Canada

Brittany Gray

Family

Patients dealing with Heart Disease deal with anxiety and depression tend to have little tolerance for noise etc.

Communication is key to helping families say healthy during this time

Heart patients with good family support tend on loose depression after a month

Economy

In 2000, Heart Disease costed Canada 22.2 billion

Overall depression rates rise

Decreased Life expectancy

Individual

Men usually get severe chest pain, while women get tightening of the chest and pressure

Symptoms include shortness of breath, nausea and fatigue

60,000 diagnosed each year

Prevention is eating healthy and staying active

Health Care System

3.3 billion healthcare costs each year for Heart Disease

Performing surgeries such as Cardioversion therapy, Coronary artery Bypass, Heart Valve surgery, implantable pacemaker, mechanical assist device etc

Medications include Antiarrythmics, Anticoagulants, Beta-blockers,Diurectics, Nitroglycerine, Chloesterol lowering medications etc

Employment

The older the patient, the more likely they won’t
Return to work

If the job isn’t rewarding, the patient more than
Likely won’t return to work

Employer fear of illness, subsequent litigation can
Can act as a barrier

Sick pay may be more generous than being at work, and will discourage patient to find work or even go back to work

Media

Plays a huge roll in influencing public’s thoughts and attitudes , behaviours of the rerlavance to chronic disease

The nature conveyed by the media, the amount of coverage received, and ways that it represented can affects viewers knowledge, attitudes and behaviours

Public Health uses Social media forgetting through to teens whom don’t read much or watch TV, all they do is sit on social media

In August 2007, roughly 1200 facebook communities advocated for different diseases