Information Leaflets on Heart Disease Prevention

Id-Dipartiment æall-Promozzjoni tas-Saóóa fid-Diviújoni tas-Saóóa flimkien ma' The Flora Project for Heart Disease Prevention æadu kemm nieda sett ta' hames leaflets informattivi b'taærif dwar kif wieóed jista' jevita li jkollu mard tal-qalb. Dawn il-leaflets, li huma miktuba bil-Malti u bl-Ingliú, jitrattaw dawn is-suííetti: IT-TIPJIP, IL-PRESSJONI TAD-DEMM, L-ÆAÚLA TA" L-IKEL LI NIEKLU, L-EÚERÐIZZJU U SAÓÓTEK, U L-ISTRESS. Dawn il-fuljetti kienu kollha sponsorjati mill-promoturi ta' The Flora Project li jimpenjaw ruóhom f'kampanji ta' æarfien dwar kif wieóed jista' jevita l-mard tal-qalb u æal daqstant qed jikkollaboraw mad-Dipartiment æall-Promozzjoni tas-Saóóa.

Ta' min iæid li l-mard tal-qalb u l-mard tac-cirkulazzjoni huwa l-aktar tip ta' mard li jikkawúa mwiet f'Malta. Id-Dipartiment æall-Promozzjoni tas-Saóóa æadu kemm nieda kampanja ta' íimæa u li fiha organizza attivitjiet diversi biex ikattar it-taærif dwar kif wieóed jista jóares lilu nnifsu minn dan it-tip ta' mard. Barra minn hekk l-istess Dipartiment huma impenjat f'diversi programmi æat-tul fl-iskejjel, il-postijiet tax-xoghol u l-komunita' li æandhom l-æan li jibdlu l-istil ta' hajja li wiehed ighix u li jista' jaæmel lil dak li jkun aktar suxxettibbli æall-mard tal-qalb u mard iehor. Permezz ta' dawn il-programmi id-Dipartiment irid li jilhaq il-miri tieghu kif proíettati fid-dokument Health Vision 2000.

Kopji ta' dawn il-leaflets kif ukoll materjal iehor jista' jinkiseb mid-Dipartiment æall-Promozzjoni tas-Saóóa, 7 Harper Lane, Floriana jew mic-Centru Taghrif Dwar Sahhtek, Triq Merkanti, Valletta.

Information Leaflets on Heart Disease Prevention

The Health Promotion Department in the Division of Health in association with The Flora Project for Heart Disease Prevention, has just launched a set of five leaflets containing information on heart disease prevention. The leaflets, each written both in Maltese and in English, cover the following topics: SMOKING, BLOOD PRESSURE, FOOD CHOICES, FITNESS AND EXERCISE and STRESS. These leaflets were all sponsored by the promoters of The Flora Project who have been working hand in hand with the Health Promotion Department on similar awareness campaigns.

Statistics show that heart disease is the most common disease in Malta. The Health Promotion Department last week organised a series of activities to increase public awareness of the risk factors which lead to heart disease. Moreover, the Department is responsible for long-term programs in schools, work places and the community aimed at helping people change life-styles which make them more prone to heart disease and other dangerous illnesses. Through these programmes the Department is working its way towards achieving the targets it set for itself in the Health Vision 2000 policy document.

Copies of these leaflets may be obtained from the Health Promotion Department, 7 Harper Lane, Floriana or from the Health Information Centre, Merchants Street, Valletta.