Global stroke care begs urgent attention, particularly in low-middle income countries. Every year, about 15 million face a stroke event in the world. Of them, about 5 million die while another 5 million become disable permanently. Almost 70 percent of stroke events occur in low-middle income countries. While the new cases per 100,000 have declined by half in high-income countries during the past decade, alarmingly, it has doubled in low-middle income countries (Johnson et al., 2016). Globally, 70 percent of stroke events and deaths occur in low-middle income countries. The Lancet, 2014 More importantly, stroke occurs mostly at peak of…

The American Heart Association and the American Medical Association promotes measuring our blood pressure at home.

Workplace wellness programs not only detect those at risk of getting a stroke and coronary heart disease but prevent occurrence also. Overall, these interventions promote general well-being. As a general measure, the strategy is one of the cost-effective interventions of health promotion. How? Employees spend most of their time in the workplace throughout the most productive period of their lives. Carrying out wellness programs yield many dividends not only to themselves but employers and society at large also. The program managers too can save their valuable time, money, and limited resources because the workplaces gather apparently healthier individuals into one…