AUGUST 2023 – National Health Observances

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


Summer Heat And The Elderly: Summer Heat Safety Tips


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


AUGUST 2023 OBSERVANCES

  • Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
  • MedicAlert Awareness Month
  • National Eye Exam Month
  • National Immunization Awareness Month
  • Psoriasis Awareness Month
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
  • World Breastfeeding Week – Aug. 1 – 7
  • National Health Center Week – Aug. 6 – 12
  • National Minority Donor Awareness Day – Aug. 1
  • Health Unit Coordinator Day – Aug. 23


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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