Zühlke Liesl J, Engel Mark E
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Glob Heart. 2013 Sep;8(3):235-9. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2013.08.009. Epub 2013 Sep 26.
Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are diseases of poverty, low socioeconomic status, and inadequate access to health care. These preventable diseases remain largely ignored by the developed world while they continue to cause significant mortality and morbidity in the developing world. In the face of no existing cure, we need to focus on prevention and control methods. To this end, creating awareness of the disease and its effects on millions of people in the world is critically important. In this review, we will outline the importance of these efforts, discuss the barriers to awareness and education, and highlight some important models in this arena. We strongly support awareness-raising and health promotion strategies as an integral part of a rheumatic heart disease prevention and control program.
急性风湿热和风湿性心脏病是与贫困、社会经济地位低下以及医疗保健服务不足相关的疾病。这些可预防的疾病在发达国家基本被忽视，却在发展中国家持续导致大量的死亡和发病。由于目前尚无治愈方法，我们需要专注于预防和控制措施。为此，提高对该疾病及其对全球数百万人影响的认识至关重要。在本综述中，我们将概述这些努力的重要性，讨论提高认识和开展教育的障碍，并突出该领域的一些重要模式。我们坚决支持将提高认识和健康促进策略作为风湿性心脏病预防和控制计划的一个组成部分。
