Heart disease is a prevalent and serious health concern in Canada, with significant impacts on mental health, individual functioning, and the economy. Media has played a pivotal role in raising awareness about coronary heart disease, making it widely recognized.
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.
