SEPTEMBER 2023 – National Health Observances

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


Foods for Seniors: Top 10 Foods to Add to Your Diet


2022 MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK


COVID-19:  Guidance For Your Community 


COVID-19:  Vaccines and Boosters


COVID-19:  Coronavirus The Disease 2022  


Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) 


Influenza (FLU)


Shots & Vaccines


Medical Screening Tests


SEPTEMBER 2023 OBSERVANCES

  • Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
  • Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
  • Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month
  • National Cholesterol Education Month
  • National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
  • National Recovery Month
  • National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month
  • Pain Awareness Month
  • Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month
  • Reye’s Syndrome Awareness Month
  • Sepsis Awareness Month
  • Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
  • Vascular Nurses Week – Sept. 3 -9
  • Environmental Services Week – Sept. 10 -16
  • National Assisted Living Week – Sept. 10 – 16
  • Nursing Professional Development Week – Sept. 10 -16
  • Neonatal Nurses Week – Sept. 11 – 17
  • International Clean Hands Week – Sept. 17 – 23
  • National Surgical Technologists Week – Sept. 17 – 23
  • World Physical Therapy Day – Sept. 8
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day – Sept. 9
  • World Suicide Prevention Day – Sept. 10
  • Programmers Day – Sept. 13
  • Neonatal Nurses Day – Sept. 15
  • National Working Parents Day – Sept. 16
  • IT Professionals Day – Sept. 19
  • National Addiction Professionals Day – Sept. 20
  • World Alzheimer’s Day – Sept. 21
  • Business Women’s Day – Sept. 22
  • International Ataxia Awareness Day – Sept. 25
  • National Food Service Employees Day – Sept. 25
  • World Pharmacist Day – Sept. 25
  • Human Resource Professional Day – Sept. 26
  • World Heart Day – Sept. 29


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)


– END OF PAGE –