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Since UK indoor #smokingban, #heartdisease deaths in over 35 yr-olds fall by 20%, strokes down 14%. Via @guardian ow.ly/eE5D30cTLr6
We implement programs that strengthen these partners and the health systems they support working to improve the lives of billions.
When considering the impact that tobacco has on society, the first thing that comes to mind is the health impacts: cancer, emphysema, heart attacks, strokes and other tobacco-related illnesses. But it’s important to pull back and see what effect this burden of disease and premature death, and the tobacco industry as a whole, has on society.
Fortaleza launched its first media campaign on correct helmet wearing at a press conference at City Hall in February 2017. It ran for on TV, radio and social media, as well as movie theaters across the city. The traffic police was also carrying out enhanced enforcement in coordination with the media campaign.
Vital Strategies joins Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO as an implementing partner in the Partnership for Healthy Cities, providing technical assistance, as needed, to participating cities as they pursue evidence-based interventions that deliver results.
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