Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Health Awareness in OCTOBER:

  • World Mental Health Day  October 10 “Whoever you are or wherever you live, you’re not alone”. World Federation for Mental Health 
         WHO    Australia


  • Brain Injury Awareness Month

  • Blindness Awareness Month

  • Bone and Joint Decade National Action Week  October 12 - 20


  • Depression Screening Day, National (1st Thursday)

  • Depression & Mental Health Month

  • Eye Injury Prevention Month  at American Academy of Ophthalmology www.aao.org/eyemd

  • Family Health Month, National

  • Halloween Safety Month at Prevent Blindness America  www.preventblindness.org 
  • Health Education Week, National

  • Healthy Lung Month at American Lung Association  www.lungusa.org 

  • Health Literacy Month

  • Hearing Aid Awareness Week

  • Infection Control Week (3rd week)

  • Interstitial Cystitis Awareness Day, October 31  www.NPWH.org 

  • Lupus Awareness Month

        Lupus Foundation of America  www.lupus.org 
  • Lung Health Day, October 24

        American Association for Respiratory Care   
  • Mammography Day, National (3rd Friday)

          American Cancer Society  www.cancer.org
 
  • Mental Illness Awareness Week (1st full week)

  • National Celiac Disease Awareness Month

         Celiac Sprue Association  www.csaceliacs.org

  •  National Child Health Day, October 1
         U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
 
  • National Dental Hygiene Month at American Dental Hygienists' Association  www.adha.org



  • National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
        National Down Syndrome Society  www.ndss.org
 
  • National Family Sexuality Education Month
        Planned Parenthood Federation of America  www.plannedparenthood.org
 
  • National Physical Therapy Month

        American Physical Therapy Association   www.apta.org
  • National Spina Bifida Awareness Month

        Spina Bifida Association of America
  • National Health Education Week, October 15 - 19 www.nche.org


  • National Primary Care Week (3rd week)
 
  • Spinal Health Month

  • "Talk About Prescriptions" Month

         National Council on Patient Information and Education   www.talkaboutrx.org

 

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