{"id":271,"date":"2013-04-07T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2013\/04\/07\/world-health-day-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-04-07T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T12:26:44","slug":"world-health-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/world-health-day\/world-health-day-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/globe_health.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"globe health\" class=\"thumbimages\" style=\"float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/globe_health.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/globe_health-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>This World Health Day, April&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">7, 2013, the World Health&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Organisation (WHO) and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">partners focus on the global&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">problem of high blood pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Though it affects more than one in three adults&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">worldwide, it remains largely hidden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Many people do not know they have high blood pressure&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">because it does not always cause symptoms. As a result,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">it leads to more than nine million deaths every year,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">including about half of all deaths due to heart disease and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">stroke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The ultimate goal of World Health Day 2013 is to reduce&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">heart attacks and strokes. Specific objectives of the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">campaign are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 to raise awareness of the causes and&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">consequences of high blood pressure;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 to provide information on how to prevent high&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">blood pressure and related complications;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 to encourage adults to check their blood pressure&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">and to follow the advice of health-care&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">professionals;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 to encourage self-care to prevent high blood&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">pressure;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 to make blood pressure measurement affordable&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">to all; and<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u2022 to incite national and local authorities to create&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">enabling environments for healthy behaviours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This World Health Day, April&nbsp;7, 2013, the World Health&nbsp;Organisation (WHO) and&nbsp;partners focus on the global&nbsp;problem of high blood pressure. Though it affects more than one in three adults&nbsp;worldwide, it remains largely hidden. Many people do not know they have high blood pressure&nbsp;because it does not always cause symptoms. As a result,&nbsp;it leads to more than nine million deaths every year,&nbsp;including about half of all deaths due to heart disease and&nbsp;stroke. The ultimate goal of World Health Day 2013 is to reduce&nbsp;heart attacks and strokes. Specific objectives of the&nbsp;campaign are: \u2022 to raise awareness of the causes and&nbsp;consequences of high blood &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-health-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}