HEALTH EQUITY is when everyone has the OPPORTUNITY
to be as healthy (SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND MENTALLY) as possible.
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- May 1-31: ALS Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Arthritis Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Better Hearing and Speech Month
- May 1-31: Better Sleep Month
- May 1-31: Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Brain Cancer Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Food Allergy Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Global Employee Health and Fitness Month
- May 1-31: Healthy Vision Month
- May 1-31: Hepatitis Awareness Month
- May 1-31: High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Lupus Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Lyme Disease Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Maternal Mental Health Month
- May 1-31: Mental Health Awareness Month
- May 1-31: National Asthma and Allergies Awareness Month
- May 1-31: National Celiac Disease Awareness Month
- May 1-31: National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
- May 1-31: National Nurses Month
- May 1-31: National Osteoporosis Awareness Month
- May 1-31: National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
- May 1-31: National Stroke Awareness Month
- May 1-31: National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
- May 1-31: National Teen Self-Esteem Month
- May 1-31: National Women’s Health Month
- May 1-31: Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Older Americans Month
- May 1-31: Preeclampsia Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Skin Cancer Awareness Month
- May 1-31: Tourette’s Awareness Month
- May 2: International Scurvy Awareness Day
- May 3: World Ankylosing Spondylitis Day
- May 5: World Hand Hygiene Day
- May 5-10: North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
- May 6-12: National Nurses Week
- May 6: World Asthma Day
- May 8: World Ovarian Cancer Day
- May 9-15: National Stuttering Awareness Week
- May 10: National Lipid Day
- May 10: World Lupus Day
- May 11-17: National Hospital Week
- May 11-17: National Women’s Health Week
- May 12: International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases
- May 12: International Nurses Day
- May 12: ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day
- May 12: National Women’s Checkup Day
- May 15: Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness Day
- May 17: World Hypertension Day
- May 18: HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
- May 19: Hepatitis Testing Day
- May 19: National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- May 19: World IBD Day
- May 20: World Autoimmune and AutoInflammatory Arthritis Day
- May 22: World Preeclampsia Day
- May 23: Don’t Fry Day
- May 24: World Schizophrenia Day
- May 25: World Thyroid Day
- May 28: National Senior Health and Fitness Day
- May 29: World Digestive Health Day
- May 30: World MS Day
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- May 31: World No Tobacco Day
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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)