The Impact of Heart Disease

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The Impact of Heart Disease in Canada

Media

Awareness: With the media spreading awareness to their viewers, the coronary heart disease is now a wildly known cardiovascular disease which happens to be quite common.

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One in five people with ischemic heart disease or with stroke, up to two in five people with congestive heart failure, and one in three people following a heart attack develop clinical depression. Individuals with both CVD and depression have an impaired quality of life, and increased health problems as well as risk death.

Individual

Assistance: is needed for those that have been left with impairment after surviving a stroke such as paralysis, stiffness, changes in sensation, all which usually occur on one side of the body. These effects make it difficult for the movement in the body which causes struggle in performing everyday activities individually.

Healthcare System

In 2005/06, CBD were the primary reasons for hospitalization for 17% of all hospitalizations - 20% men, and 14% for women.

One of the sole causes of hospital visits are due to cardiovascular diseases.

Economic

Costs: CVD costs in Canada amounted to $22.2 billion - the second highest total cost among all diagnostic categories. The total costs for CVD included 7.6 billion for health care direct costs, and $14.6 billion for indirect costs resulting from lost economic productivity due to disability or death. In 2007, 34.6 million visits (10% of al visits) made by Canadians to community physicians were for the management of CVD. An estimated 65.7 million prescriptions were dispensed for the treatment of CVD.