The Healthy Heart Trust

World Healthy Life Week’s 2023 International Webinars:
Economic Inequality and Cardiovascular Disease – the Evidence Racial Equality and Hypertension – Challenging Assumptions Women’s Cardiovascular Health – Addressing the Blind Spots

The Healthy Heart Trust (established in 1996 as the Cardiovascular Research Trust), is home to the World Healthy Life Week, an international event now in its fourth year. It is about taking a holistic view of our heart health to promote a healthy life for all. The Week was held in partnership with the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

In 2023, World Healthy Life Week took place between Monday October 30^th and Sunday November 5^th 2023, and the theme was “Health Inequalities: Towards Cardiovascular Health Equity”.

The Week was a platform to:

• Exchange knowledge on the evidence of promoting health and preventing illness through seminars and partnerships;
• Inspire people to take positive action to protect their health and that of their families and communities through events and accessible content;
• Educate decision-makers to implement health-promoting policies and measures;
• To enable a dialogue between the arts and health through the ‘Art of the Heart’ annual international awards.

Good health is a state of physical, mental and social wellbeing.

Having a healthy heart and circulation is linked to a multitude of other health benefits.

Following a healthy lifestyle for a healthy heart benefits our entire body:

• Protects from diabetes, asthma, joint pain;
• Reduces the risk of cancer;
• Boosts mood and reduces stress;
• Improves chances of recovery from COVID-19 disease and Long Covid.

A series of international webinars was at the heart of the Week’s activities to enable the exchange of knowledge on the evidence of promoting health and preventing illness and inspire people and decision-makers to take positive action to protect heart health.

In 2023, we focused on the following topics:

1. Economic Inequality and Cardiovascular Disease – the Evidence
2. Racial Equality and Hypertension – Challenging Assumptions
3. Women’s Cardiovascular Health – Addressing the Blind Spots

World Healthy Life Week is also the home of the ‘Art of the Heart’ Awards, an International Competition for works by young visual artists which Illustrate Matters of Health and Illness Related to the Heart or Circulation.

To read more about the Awards visit our Art of the Heart page.