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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.
January 2003
Cervical Health Awareness Month
- National Cervical Cancer Coalition
- About Women's Health
National Birth Defects Prevention Month
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
- ABCs of a Healthy Pregnancy
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
- Prevent Blindness America
National Mentoring Month
- The Harvard Mentoring Project
- Adventures in Parenting - Mentoring Your Child
National Oatmeal Month
- Quaker Oatmeal
- Nutrition for Children
National Radon Action Month
- Enviornmental Health Center
- About Radon Gas
- Environmental Health Hazards
National Volunteer Blood Donor
Month
- American Association of Blood Banks
January 19-25 Healthy Weight Week
- Healthy Weight Network
- About Weight Loss
- BMI Calculator - Are your kids overweight?
- Children's Weight Management Guide
January 31 Job Shadow Day (What do you want to be?)
- National Job Shadow Coalition
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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