Cardiovascular Disease Implementation and Policy Priorities for Australia: Recommendations From an Australian Stakeholder Roundtable

Julie Redfern; Catherine Shang; Meng-Ping Hsu; Kerry Doyle; Don Nutbeam; Ralph Audehm; Sally C Inglis; Christian Hamilton-Craig; Natalie Raffoul; Timothy Shaw; Gemma A Figtree; Garry Jennings; all the Roundtable Participants

doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2023.07.009

Cardiovascular Disease Implementation and Policy Priorities for Australia: Recommendations From an Australian Stakeholder Roundtable

Heart Lung Circ. 2023 Oct;32(10):1141-1147. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2023.07.009. Epub 2023 Sep 25.

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA; Australian Cardiovascular Alliance, Australia. Electronic address: julie.redfern@sydney.edu.au.
² Australian Cardiovascular Alliance, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA; Sydney Health Partners, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ National Heart Foundation of Australia, Australia; Department of General Practice and Primary Healthcare, University of Medicine, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
⁵ Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia; University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland and Centre for Advanced Imaging, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
⁷ National Heart Foundation of Australia, Australia.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA.
⁹ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA; Australian Cardiovascular Alliance, Australia; Cardiovascular Discovery Group, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Cardiology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA; Australian Cardiovascular Alliance, Australia; Sydney Health Partners, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia; National Heart Foundation of Australia, Australia.

PMID: 37758637
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2023.07.009

Abstract

The Australian Cardiovascular Alliance (ACvA), the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) and the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) recently joined forces to bring the cardiovascular and stroke community together to convene and document a national discussion and propose a national CVD Implementation and Policy agenda and action plan. This includes prevention and screening, acute care and secondary prevention.

Keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac rehabilitation; Cardiovascular disease; Data; Digital health; Implementation; Policy; Primary care; Roundtable; Secondary prevention; Stroke.

Copyright © 2023 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

MeSH terms

Australia / epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases* / epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases* / prevention & control
Humans
New Zealand / epidemiology
Policy