The Women@Heart Program: Impact of a Peer Support Program for Women with Coronary Artery Disease

Elias, Nadine; Reid, R; Coutinho, Thais; McDonnell, Lisa

doi:10.1016/j.cjca.2018.01.062

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“…Preliminary data from University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation, and Women's College peer support initiatives in the respective cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programs have rendered promising results, which further emphasize the importance of providing opportunities for women to share their lived experiences with each other during recovery and thereafter. 35,36 "Stopped at the Gate": Barriers to Accessing Acute Cardiovascular Care…”

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The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance Atlas on the Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women—Chapter 3: Patient Perspectives

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In recent years, public awareness campaigns have targeted knowledge gaps and inequities in care while focusing on the unique female experience and heightened cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile. Recognizing and understanding the sex and gender constructs, barriers, facilitators, and factors that affect access, treatment, and recovery after an acute cardiac event from the unique patient perspective is a key step in transforming clinical practice and care patterns. The aim of this atlas chapter is to provide a knowledge review and to identify gaps regarding the experience of living with CVD from the perspective of the female survivor. The sections are as follows: (1) experiencing and living with CVD as a woman; (2) "stopped at the CJC Open-(2021) 1e7

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