“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”

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VAS Proposed Projects/Campaign :

• Prevention is a part of Citizien’s rights, an investiment both for the present and the future.
• Prevention requires expertise, connections, education, will and method to modify both our health systems and our personal life style.
• Prevention needs Institutions, both at European/international level as well as at national. It also needs proposals and networking from specialists and scientific organizations. It needs patients, citiziens, social organizations collaborating in the common projects.
• Prevention of diseases means built up a project and make people open to consider their life as a power not a fate.
• Prevention is multidisciplinary, the same indications work for all the non-communicable chronic disease. They can be teached and learned by each of us
• VAS follows, integrates into its projects and disseminates the main aims and projects on prevention defined by WHO.
• As a partner of EPHA  it collaborates on its campaigns as well as promotes close interaction on its own programmes.

• VAS makes proposals , in particular to prevent PAD and main vascular diseases as ell as their deterioration and complication.
• Vascular diseases respond well to prevention . Years and quality of life as well as acute events can be strongly influenced by simple acts.
• If we prevent vascular diseases we are able to prevent a number of other concomitant or related conditions.
• Prevention becomes an ethical need and the responsibility of the future programmes should be taken by all of us.
• Education at all levels is the basis and the guarantee for prevention .