HEALTH EQUITY is when everyone has the OPPORTUNITY
to be as healthy (SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND MENTALLY) as possible.
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
OCTOBER 2023 OBSERVANCES
- October 1-31: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT) Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Contact Lens Safety Month
- October 1-31: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Down Syndrome Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Eye Injury Prevention Month
- October 1-31: Health Literacy Month
- October 1-31: Healthy Lung Month
- October 1-31: Home Eye Safety Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Liver Cancer Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
- October 1-31: National ADHD Awareness Month
- October 1-31: National Audiology Awareness Month
- October 1-31: National Bullying Prevention Month
- October 1-31: National Dental Hygiene Month
- October 1-31: National Medical Librarians Month
- October 1-31: National Orthodontic Health Month
- October 1-31: National Physical Therapy Month
- October 1-31: National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Prenatal-onset GBS Disease Recognition Month
- October 1-31: Spina Bifida Awareness Month
- October 1-31: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
- October 1: International Day of Older Persons
- October 1-7: Mental Illness Awareness Week
- October 1-7: National Primary Care Week
- October 2: Child Health Day
- October 6: National Depression Screening Day
- October 6: World Cerebral Palsy Day
- October 7: Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day
- October 10: World Mental Health Day
- October 11: International Day of the Girl Child
- October 12: World Sight Day
- October 12-20: Bone and Joint Action Week
- October 13: Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
- October 14: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
- October 15: Global Handwashing Day
- October 15: National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day
- October 15: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
- October 15-21: International Infection Prevention Week
- October 15-21: National Healthcare Quality Week
- October 16: Restart a Heart Day
- October 16: World Food Day
- October 16-20: National Health Education Week
- October 18: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Action Day
- October 19: World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day
- October 20: National Mammography Day
- October 20: World Osteoporosis Day
- October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
- October 22-28: Respiratory Care Week
- October 29: World Psoriasis Day
compliments of www.health.gov; healthfinder.gov; hrbanana.com, clinicaladvisor.com and www.cdc.gov
(please check these sites for further information)
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)