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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.

November 2003

American Diabetes Month

• American Diabetes Association
• About Diabetes

Diabetic Eye Disease Month

• Prevent Blindness America
• About Diabetes

Lung Cancer Awareness Month

• Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy
• About Cancer

National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month

• Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association
• About Senior Health

National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month

• Indian Health Service

National Epilepsy Month

• Epilepsy Foundation

National Healthy Skin Month

• American Academy of Dermatology

National Hospice Month

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

National Marrow Awareness Month

• National Marrow Donor Program
• About Cancer

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

• Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
  
• About Cancer

November 2-8 National Allied Health Week

• Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions

November 2-8 Hearing Aid Awareness Week

• International Hearing Society

November 16-22 National Adoption Week

• BAAF Adoption & Fostering
• About Adoption

November 20 Great American Smokeout

• American Cancer Society
• About Smoking Cessation

November 23-29 GERD Awareness Week

• International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• About GERD

Source: 2003National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.