Tips for Safe Driving

Fundación MAPFRE collaborates in the prevention of this serious public health issue through its Prevention of Drowning in Swimming Pools and Beaches Program, which consists of posters describing the key prevention points, for use at swimming pools and beaches, and a quick guide with recommendations. Entitled “Enjoy aquatic spaces safely this summer”, the guide is particularly targeted at families with children and elderly people, the sectors of the population with the highest incidence of drowning.

For patients with Parkinson’s, given its degenerative nature, the help they receive from everyone else, family members, friends, staff at associations, therapists, etc., is of great aid in their daily lives. Médicos por la Seguridad Vial offers you this brief sheet to help you learn more about it, including associated road safety recommendations.

Illnesses of the buccal space, pharynx, larynx and trachea, in addition to the specific symptoms of the disease, entail associated symptoms that have an enormous effect upon the patient’s physical abilities and mood. We invite you to read this brief sheet to learn about common symptoms and advice for driving safely if you have any of them.

According to the World Health Organization, one of the key risk factors for cardiovascular disease is hypertension (high blood pressure). Hypertension affects 1 billion people in the world and can cause heart attacks and stokes.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia (FM), or Fibromyalgia Syndrome were previously known as fibrositis or soft tissue rheumatism. It is a chronic disease of unknown cause that was not incorporated into the catalog of diseases of the World Health Organization until 1992, impacting the approach to this disease in terms of clinical practice, government healthcare policy, and the social sphere.

Diagnosing HT is complicated, because common symptoms of hypertension can be attributed to other diseases. It is uncommon for people to measure their blood pressure unless they visit the doctor for some reason, and so it is estimated that one out of every three people with hypertension do not know that they have high blood pressure.

There are two important diseases associated with HT that deserve special attention in terms of patient care and road safety: Renal specific secondary HT and Aneurysms and acute aortic dissection.

If for more than six months a patient has elevated transaminases (damaged cells in the liver), this condition is called chronic liver disease. To put it simply, liver disease consists of inflammation of the liver, accumulation of fats in the liver, and increased size of the liver, which affects liver function.