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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.
February 2003
American Heart Month
- American Heart Association
- About Senior Health
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
- Prevent Blindness America
- Lighthouse International
- Vision Screening for Kids
National Children’s Dental Health Month
- American Dental Association
- Children's Dental Health Guide
- About Dentistry
Kids E.N.T. (Ears, Nose, Throat) Month
- American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inc
- Ear Infections and Language Development
Wise Health Consumer Month
- American Institute for Preventive Medicine
- Talking To Your Pediatrician
February 2 - 8 National Burn Awareness Week
- Shriners Burns Hospital
- Burn Treatment and Prevention
February 5 National Girls and Women in Sports Day
- Women’s Sports Foundation
- About Exercise
February 9 - 15 National Children of Alcoholics Week
- National Association for Children of Alcoholics
- About Alcoholism
February 9 - 15 National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Children's Car Seat Safety Guide
February 10 - 14 Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
- American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- About Physical Therapy
February 14 National Condom Day
- American Social Health Association
- About Sexuality - How to Use a Condom
February 21 Give Kids A Smile Day
- American Dental Association
- Children's Dental Health Guide
- About Dentistry
23 - 2 National Eating Disorders Screening Program
- Screening for Mental Health
- Are Your Kids Over or Underweight?
February 23 - 2 National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- National Eating Disorders Association
Source: 2003 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
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