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First Nations resources

First Nations heart health

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First Nations resources

Looking after your heart helps you stay strong for yourself, your family, community, and the things you love.

This page brings together trusted heart health resources created with and for First Nations people, families and communities.

Here you’ll find easy to understand information, videos, posters and stories that can help you learn more about heart health, ways to look after yourself and support others to keep their hearts strong.

You can use these resources to:

  • Learn about acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD)
  • Hear from people with lived experience of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
  • Recognise the warning signs of a heart attack
  • Find healthy eating ideas for everyday life
  • Understand and share key heart health facts with others

Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

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Laundry Lane - RHD explainer video

Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease explained | Heart Foundation

Champions4Change:

First Nations voices leading change to help end rheumatic heart disease

Red Dust RHD Program

Minjilang

Heart conditions and the signs to look out for (posters and sites)

Heart attack warning signs action plan

Understanding heart conditions and heart health checks (videos)

Healthy eating (posters)

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Healthy eating (video)

Honouring traditional sweetness

Sugar in our body

Bouncy energy

What’s in your drink?

Fast facts on heart health – First Nations people