Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 25: In view of very less awareness regarding the social domain of cardiovascular health among masses, Head Department of Cardiology GMCH Jammu Dr Sushil Sharma held a day long Cardiac awareness cum health checkup camp at Panchayat Panj Grain, Block Nagrota , Jammu in order to enlighten people about the social equality and its long term impact in reducing cardiac morbidity and mortality.
While interacting with the people, Dr Sushil stated that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Addressing social determinants of health may be the next forefront of reducing the enormous burden of CVD. “SDoH can be defined as any social, economic, or environmental factor that influences a health outcome. Comprehensive evidence of the role of social determinant in CVD is lacking, nevertheless.There has been increasing recognition that Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) significantly contribute to morbidity, mortality, and health inequality. According to the World Health Organization, SDoH are any situation or circumstance in which individuals are born, grow, live, work, and age. SDoH can also be described as any environmental factor that affects a person’s health, quality of life, or the progression of a disease in a complex and interconnected manner”, Dr Sharma said.
He elaborated that despite significant advancements; gross inequalities continue to persist over space and time. Although increasing at different rates worldwide, the magnitude of increase in the prevalence of various cardiovascular risk factors has shifted research efforts to study the causes of the risk factors (ie, the ’causes of the causes’), which include the social determinants of health. The social determinants of health reflect the impact of the social environment on health among people sharing a particular community. Imbalances in the social determinants of health have been attributed to the inequities in health observed between and within countries, he said and added that the issue of social determinants is especially necessary to assess in women of diverse races and ethnicities, as racial and ethnic diversity is currently lacking in patient data registries where data for CVD assessment is gathered.
Others who were part of the Camp include Dr Yashwant Sharma and Dr Devinder Singh, Paramedics and volunteers include Kamal Sharma, Raghav Rajput, Rajkumar, Rajinder Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Gourav Sharma, Jatin Bhasin, Vikas Kumar, Rohit Nayyar, Arun Singh, Maninder Singh, Rahul Vaid, Amish Jamwal and Aman Gupta
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