Healthy Heart, Healthy Family: A Community Health Worker's Manual for the Filipino Community

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Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death among Asians and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

In the Healthy Heart, Healthy Family project, you will:

• Learn how to keep your heart and your family’s hearts healthy.
• Find ways to increase your physical activity, eat in a heart healthy way, keep a healthy weight, and not smoke.
• Learn how to talk to your family, neighbors, and friends about heart disease.
• Enjoy videos, games, role playing, and other activities that make learning fun.
• Get take-home materials you can share with others.

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure!

• Classes meet once a week for 11 weeks.
• The course is free.
• Everyone who completes the course will receive a certificate.

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• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• National Institutes of Health
• National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (Tagline: People Science Health)

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Information on this page is taken from the English print version of “Healthy Heart, Healthy Family: A Community Health Worker's Manual.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH Publication No. 08-3674, Originally Printed 1999, Revised May 2008.

Last Updated March 2012