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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.

June

Fireworks Safety Month
(through July 4)

• Prevent Blindness America

Light the Night for Sight
(through July 31)

• Prevent Blindness America
• Vision Screening for Kids

National Aphasia Awareness Month

• National Aphasia Association
• About Aphasia (Senior Health)

National Scleroderma Awareness Month

• Scleroderma Foundation
• About Scleroderma (Arthritis)

Vision Research Month

• Prevent Blindness America

5 National Cancer Survivors Day

• American Cancer Society
• About Cancer

5-11 North American Occupational Safety and Health Week

• American Society of Safety Engineers

6-8 National Headache Awareness Week

• National Headache Foundation
• About Headaches

10-16 National Men’s Health Week

• National Men’s Health Foundation
• About Men's Health

23-29 Helen Keller Deaf - Blind Awareness Week

• Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults
• About Deafness

27 Eye Safety Awareness Week
(through July 5)

• United States Eye Injury Registry

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.