Tegg Nicole L, Norris Colleen M, Symonds-Brown Holly
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Cavarzan Chair in Mature Women's Research, WCHRI, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Nurs Inq. 2025 Jul;32(3):e70045. doi: 10.1111/nin.70045.
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of mortality for women globally and presents a considerable health burden despite decades of awareness campaigns. Messaging in these campaigns includes a significant focus on individual lifestyle behaviour modification for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, with health promotion campaigns and clinical organizations stating that 80%-90% of cardiovascular disease is preventable. Public messaging campaigns on prevention strategies have historically lacked differentiation for gender. As a result, they can overlook the complex factors that may hinder women from achieving the suggested lifestyle modifications, including the long-promoted trio of diet, exercise and tobacco. The non-coherence between the logics guiding cardiovascular disease prevention messaging and the competing logics of everyday life for women deserves attention. In this paper, we explore the assumptions evident in common cardiovascular disease prevention narratives and propose that nurses are well-positioned to advocate for gender-transformative health promotion.
心血管疾病仍然是全球女性死亡的主要原因，尽管开展了数十年的宣传活动，但它仍带来了相当大的健康负担。这些活动传递的信息主要集中在通过改变个人生活方式来预防心血管疾病，健康促进活动和临床机构表示，80%-90%的心血管疾病是可以预防的。以往关于预防策略的公共宣传活动缺乏针对性别的区分。因此，这些活动可能会忽视那些可能阻碍女性实现建议的生活方式改变的复杂因素，包括长期倡导的饮食、运动和戒烟这三大要素。指导心血管疾病预防宣传的逻辑与女性日常生活中的其他相互冲突的逻辑之间缺乏连贯性，这一点值得关注。在本文中，我们探讨了常见的心血管疾病预防叙述中明显存在的假设，并提出护士在倡导促进性别转变的健康方面具有得天独厚的优势。
