FEBRUARY 2023 – National Health Observances

HEALTH EQUITY is when everyone has the OPPORTUNITY
to be as healthy (SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND MENTALLY) as possible.


Mental Health and the Elderly 12 Key Points


2022 MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK


COVID-19:  Guidance For Your Community 


COVID-19:  Vaccines and Boosters


COVID-19:  Coronavirus The Disease 2022  


Influenza (FLU)


Shots & Vaccines


Medical Screening Tests


FEBRUARY 2023 OBSERVANCES

  • AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
  • American Heart Month
  • National Children’s Dental Health Month
  • Wise Health Care Consumer Month
  • Patient Recognition Week – Feb. 1 – 7
  • Pride in Foodservice Week – Feb. 6 -10
  • Peri-Anesthesia Nurse Week – Feb. 6 – 12
  • Phlebotomist Recognition Week – Feb. 13-17
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week – Feb. 13-19
  • Cardiovascular Professionals Week. Feb . 14 – 20
  • National Eating Disorders Awareness Week – Feb. 23- Mar. 1
  • Wear Red Day – Feb. 3
  • National Women Physician Day – Feb. 3
  • International Epilepsy Day – Feb. 13
  • National Caregivers Day – Feb. 17


compliments of www.health.gov; healthfinder.gov; hrbanana.com and www.cdc.gov
(please check these sites for further information)


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



19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)


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