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Please visit Health Observances for the latest updates on days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting particular health concerns.

Parents, health professionals, teachers, community groups, and others can use these special times to sponsor health promotion events, stimulate awareness of health risks, or focus on disease prevention.

Information appearing in this document does not represent an endorsement by your Pediatric's Guide, who does not have any role in naming any national health observance day, week, or month.

For more information, please contact the sponsoring organization directly.

February

American Heart Month

AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month

National Children’s Dental Health Month

Sinus Pain Awareness Month

Wise Health Consumer Month

3-9 Cardiac Rehabilitation Week

 3-9 National Burn Awareness Week

6 National Girls and Women in Sports Day

10-16 National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week

10-16 National Children of Alcoholics Week

14 National Condom Day

Source: 2002 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.