The Heart Foundation is dedicated to reducing the impact of cardiovascular disease in Australia, which includes helping to minimise the number of people living with, or dying from heart, stroke and blood vessel disease.
Since we were established in Australia in 1959, we have funded world-class cardiovascular research, supported health professionals in their practice, developed health promotion activities, informed and educated the public, and assisted people with cardiovascular disease.
Today, the life expectancy of Australians is about ten years longer for men and nine years longer for women.
With your support, we aim to continue our ground-breaking work into the future, providing Australians with the very best heart health information and funds for life-saving research.
For all information regarding the Heart Foundation as an organisation, please use the navigation at left to select the information you need.
Championing hearts: our plan for 2008-2012
To support the delivery of our vision and mission we will focus on six key areas:
- Help all Australians to achieve a healthy weight
- Help all Australians to identify and understand the warning signs of a heart attack
- Inform and educate women about their risk of cardiovascular disease and the steps they can take to prevent it
- Help all Australians to have improved access to prevention and treatment
- Increase our commitment to supporting research as well as using quality research in all of our work and
- Increase funds raised.
We are please to provide the following report on the progress in these areas.
Championing hearts (2008-2012): mid-strategy report as at July 2010