JANUARY 2024 – National Health Observances

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


JANUARY 2024 OBSERVANCES



Cervical Health Awareness Month
More than 11,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. The good news: vaccination and regular screening can prevent the disease. During Cervical Health Awareness Month, help us educate people about the steps they can take to protect themselves and their loved ones from cervical cancer. Learn about cervical cancer with this resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and get the details about HPV vaccination and screening tests. You can share these survivor stories from women who have faced cervical cancer to advocate for screening and prevention — and check out this fact sheet from the Office on Women’s Health for answers to common questions about pap smears and HPV tests. Our MyHealthfinder materials can help encourage people to get screened for cervical cancer and get their child vaccinated against HPV. Finally, Healthy People 2030 offers evidence-based resources related to cervical cancer that you can use in your work.  



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“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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