5 years ago
LABOR TO RAISE AWARENESS OF WOMEN'S HEART HEALTH
CATHERINE KING MP
A Shorten Labor Government will raise public awareness of women's heart health by rolling out a potentially life-saving new education campaign in communities across Australia.
Heart disease is the biggest killer of Australian women - but prevention, diagnosis and treatment efforts are being undermined by the perception that heart disease is a male problem.
In fact, women are three times more likely to die from heart disease than from breast cancer. Women often ignore heart attack symptoms because they can be different from those experienced by men.
For several years The Heart Foundation has been educating NSW women about these issues through its Women and Heart Disease Community Grants program.
The program provides community organisations with $10,000 each to raise local awareness of heart disease and the ways women can reduce their risks.
Labor will invest $300,000 to begin rolling out this important program nationally. Thirty communities will benefit from this pre-election downpayment to tackling this important issue.
We will use the Heart Foundation's Australian Heart Maps to help identify communities where Labor's investment is most needed.
This commitment comes on top of Labor's recent decision to invest $170 million in Medicare to cover heart health checks.
Labor is committed to improving the health of all Australians.
That's why we're committed to fixing our hospitals with our $2.8 billion Better Hospitals Fund. It's why we're committed to ending the Liberals' disastrous six-year Medicare freeze. It's why we're committed to bringing down the cost of private health insurance.
And it's why we will fund life-saving programs like this one: so Australian women have all the information they need to avoid this deadly disease.
Heart disease is the biggest killer of Australian women - but prevention, diagnosis and treatment efforts are being undermined by the perception that heart disease is a male problem.
In fact, women are three times more likely to die from heart disease than from breast cancer. Women often ignore heart attack symptoms because they can be different from those experienced by men.
For several years The Heart Foundation has been educating NSW women about these issues through its Women and Heart Disease Community Grants program.
The program provides community organisations with $10,000 each to raise local awareness of heart disease and the ways women can reduce their risks.
Labor will invest $300,000 to begin rolling out this important program nationally. Thirty communities will benefit from this pre-election downpayment to tackling this important issue.
We will use the Heart Foundation's Australian Heart Maps to help identify communities where Labor's investment is most needed.
This commitment comes on top of Labor's recent decision to invest $170 million in Medicare to cover heart health checks.
Labor is committed to improving the health of all Australians.
That's why we're committed to fixing our hospitals with our $2.8 billion Better Hospitals Fund. It's why we're committed to ending the Liberals' disastrous six-year Medicare freeze. It's why we're committed to bringing down the cost of private health insurance.
And it's why we will fund life-saving programs like this one: so Australian women have all the information they need to avoid this deadly disease.