Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba leads the way in primary prevention

We all recognize that healthy eating, more physical activity and better lifestyle choices are key to our individual, family and community well-being. But how can we best involve citizens, organizations and policy makers in turning that awareness into action?

Over the next five years, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba (HSFM) is investing in that solution, putting the primary prevention of chronic diseases at the forefront of its work.

HSFM is promoting a primary prevention system for Manitoba by:

• Focusing its own public education and research efforts on primary prevention
• Working with the various stakeholders engaged in primary prevention
• Initiating broad-based discussion on a collaborative approach to linking existing research programs, policies and activities and developing a systemic approach to primary prevention in the province

 Through this work we intend to generate a sustained commitment to primary prevention in Manitoba that:

• Strengthens prevention research and evidence, develops community capacity, transforms best practices into results-oriented policies and programs and systematically monitors and evaluates progress
• Increases funding for prevention research and the collecting and sharing of evidence
• Results in more intentional, coordinated primary prevention activities – better information, stronger awareness and more effective actions and investments

For more information, please contact:
Leah Goodwin 
Consultant, SeyWin Management and Communications
lgoodwin@heartandstroke.mb.ca