Hjärt-Lungfonden
Stockholm, Sweden
About
Hjärt-Lungfonden is a charity based in Stockholm, Sweden working on health, medical research.
Hjärt-Lungfonden is a Swedish non-profit fundraising organisation that funds selected heart, blood vessel and lung research. It works to spread knowledge about cardiovascular and lung disease and to advocate for policies based on research findings, aiming for longer and healthier lives for people in Sweden. The organisation runs public health resources on lifestyle, nutrition and smoking and tobacco prevention, including the Sundkurs course, the Testamentskolan will education and the SCAPIS population study. It is supported by individual donors, legacies, corporate gifts and roughly 1,500 members, and is an approved gift recipient for Swedish corporate tax reductions. Its head office is in Stockholm.
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Sundkurs
Health · Sweden
Online and video-based course on lifestyle and health, produced with experts at Karolinska Institutet, for people working with lifestyle change.
Testamentskolan
Health · Sweden
Educational resource explaining how to draw up a valid will, including a legal expert's lectures and a free will guide.
SCAPIS
Health · Sweden
Sweden's largest population study on the heart, blood vessels and lungs, aiming to prevent cardiovascular and lung disease before it develops.
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UNICEF Sverige, Karolinska institutet, Cancerfonden, Generation Pep
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