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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.

July

Fireworks Safety Month
(through July 4)

• Prevent Blindness America

July 14-20 National Therapeutic Recreation Week

• National Therapeutic Recreation Society

Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month

• Hemochromatosis Foundation

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.