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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.

January

Cervical Health Awareness Month

National Birth Defects Prevention Month

National Glaucoma Awareness Month

National Volunteer Blood Donor Month

20-26 Healthy Weight Week

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.