Family Health
In the Spotlight
Camping Health
and Safety Tips and Packing Checklist
Follow these tips and use the packing checklist to ensure your camping
trip is safe and healthy.
Healthy Living Calendars
View illustrated calendars and tips for a safe and healthy
year.
Healthy Families
Traveling with
Pets and Importation of Animals into the United States
CDC regulations govern the importation of dogs, cats, turtles, monkeys,
other animals, and animal products capable of causing human disease.
Requirements for the most common pets are described below. Pets taken
out of the United States are subject upon return, to the same
regulations as those entering for the first time.
Catch-up
Immunization Scheduler for Children Six Years of Age and Younger
This tool, once downloaded, can be used to determine the vaccines your child
needs and to quickly see missed or skipped vaccines according to the
Immunization Schedule.
Stay Afloat in
Your Boat Podcast
In the United States, approximately 700 boating deaths occur each year. Dr.
Eric Tongren discusses mistakes and oversights that put persons at risk.
Chillin’ and Grillin’
Whether you bite into thick juicy burgers and hot dogs hot from the grill,
pack a picnic for the park, or dine on dilled salmon on the patio, chances
are you'll want to enjoy cooking and eating outside all summer long. Make
the most of the fun by making sure your food remains safe.
Promoting Water
Safety
Learn what you can do to prevent water-related injuries in a swimming pool
or in or around a natural body of water.
Podcast also
available.
Be Prepared
for Hurricane Season
Stock your home with supplies, get an emergency kit for your car, know how
to stay safe during the storm, and know what to do if evacuation orders are
issued. Podcast
also available.
Snuff Out
Smoking
Smoke is dangerous whether you inhale it from a cigarette or breathe it from
the air where others around you are smoking. Dr. Matthew McKenna discusses
the effects of secondhand smoke and how it can be avoided.
Podcast also
available.
Fireworks Safety
The safest way to prevent firework-related injuries is to leave firework
displays to trained professionals.
Healthy Communities
Talk About
Nitpicking! Summer Camp and Head Lice Podcast
Head lice are a fairly common problem, especially in preschool and
elementary school children. This podcast will help you understand how
people get head lice and how to get rid of them!
Parks and Trails
Enjoy an active summer in our nation’s beautiful parks and trails. Being
active outdoors is beneficial for your physical and mental health. Adults
are encouraged to get at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical
activity most days of the week, and children are encouraged to get at least
60 minutes of physical activity most days of the week, preferably daily.
Community Health
Resources
Are you looking for CDC's best resources to help you plan, implement, and
evaluate community health initiatives? Search this website for links to
hundreds of useful tools, handbooks, fact sheets, and other information.
The Community Health
Promotion Handbook Action Guides to Improve Community Health
CDC's Steps Program and Partnership for Prevention have developed guidance
("Action Guides") on five effective community-level health promotion
strategies relating to diabetes self-management, physical activity, and
tobacco-use treatment.
Choose Respect Community Action Kit
This kit contains information on dating abuse; healthy versus unhealthy
relationships; relationship skills; and how kids, parents, educators,
schools, and others in the community can help prevent dating abuse.
The
Reference Guide of Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults: A Resource
for Planning Interventions
This guide provides information on 17 physical activity programs that could
be used with older adults having healthy to frail functional status. All of
the programs contain physical activity components that might achieve
important benefits for all older adults with diabetes. A limited number of
the programs were designed specifically for those with diabetes or
pre-diabetes.
Science and Research
Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance- United States, 2007 (6/23/08)
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors six categories of
health behaviors among students in grades 9-12, including behaviors that
contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; tobacco use; alcohol
and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended
pregnancy and STDs, including HIV infection; unhealthy dietary
behaviors; and physical inactivity. Find out what has changed and how
girls compare to boys.
New CDC
Study First to Present National Outdoor Recreational Injury Estimates
(6/23/08)
Almost 213,000 people were treated each year in emergency departments for
outdoor recreational injuries from 2004 to 2005. For both men and women of
all ages, the most common injuries were fractures (27.4 percent) and sprains
(23.9 percent). Researchers found that snowboarding (25.5 percent), sledding
(10.8 percent), and hiking (6.3 percent) were associated with the highest
percentage of injuries requiring emergency department visits.
CDC
Recommends Shingles Vaccine (6/23/08)
People age 60 and older should be vaccinated against shingles, or herpes
zoster, a condition often marked by debilitating chronic pain. CDC
recommends a single dose of the zoster vaccine, Zostavax, for adults 60
years of age and older even if they have had a prior episode of shingles.
Decision
Not to Recommend Routine Vaccination of All Children Aged 2-10 Years with
Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (6/23/08)
At its February 2008 meeting, the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP) decided not to recommend routine vaccination of children
aged 2-10 years against meningococcal disease unless the child is at
increased risk for the disease. This report summarizes the deliberations of
ACIP and the rationale for its decision. It also restates existing
recommendations for meningococcal vaccination among children aged 2-10 years
at increased risk for meningococcal disease.
State
Smoking Restrictions for Private-Sector Worksites, Restaurants, and Bars-
United States, 2004 and 2007 (6/23/08)
The findings in this report indicate that a substantial increase in the
number and restrictiveness of state laws regulating smoking in these three
settings, providing nonsmokers with increased protection from the health
risks posed by secondhand smoke.
Health Disparities among Adults with Hearing Loss- United States, 2000-2006
(6/23/08)
During the period 2000-2006, 3.3% of U.S. adults aged 18 years and over were
deaf or had a lot of trouble hearing without the use of a hearing aid.
Deafness or a lot of trouble hearing increased dramatically with age. Among
adults aged 18-44 years, more than 40% of those who were deaf or had a lot
of trouble hearing currently smoked cigarettes compared with 24% of those
with good hearing.
Congressional Testimony: Preventing Childhood Injuries (6/23/08)
At CDC, we work to ensure that all people achieve their optimal lifespan
with the best possible quality of health at every stage of life. We are
equally motivated to ensure that individuals get a healthy start in life,
and nowhere is this more important than in the lives of children.
Awareness
of Stroke Warning Symptoms- 13 States and the District of Columbia, 2005
(6/23/08)
The results indicated that the percentages of respondents who recognized all
five correct stroke warning symptoms, identified an incorrect symptom, and
recognized the need to telephone 9-1-1 was low; the percentage who met all
three measures was 16.4%.
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July 23, 2008
Page last reviewed: June 23, 2008