News Release: Harper Government Partners with Elsevier Canada and C-CHANGE Initiative to improve cardiovascular patient care
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including healthy eating and regular physical activity, plays an important role in the health of Canadians who live with cardiovascular disease (CVD).
The Government of Canada is advancing innovative partnerships, which include the private sector and health care providers, to give Canadians living with CVD information and tools to manage their health and prevent other related chronic diseases. This is being accomplished through the Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guidelines Endeavour (C-CHANGE) project, in collaboration with Elsevier Canada and the University Health Network (UHN).
C-CHANGE is a national project and will benefit clinicians and their CVD patients across Canada. The goals of C-CHANGE are to:
- Implement the harmonized clinical practice guidelines (harmonization of guidelines were completed in phase one in 2011) to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease (CVD).
- Improve the heart health of Canadians by providing the primary health care community with a comprehensive approach to CVD that addresses risks such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes.
- Provide the health care community with tools to apply the harmonized guidelines in the practice setting, and CVD patients with a self-management tool to implement their own risk reduction behaviours.
The Public Health Agency of Canada will invest $154,000 in C-CHANGE to the end of 2014. Elsevier Canada will provide $162,000, in addition to $50,000 per year to cover the costs of web hosting and supplementary content and resource updates. The UHN has provided the expertise to harmonize the clinical practice recommendations for CVD.
