Family Health
In the Spotlight
Autumn Health and Safety Tips
Help ensure your autumn plans include ways to stay safe and healthy.
Parents: Autumn Tips to Help Keep Your
Kids Safe and Healthy
Greet the fall with ways to help keep you and your kids safe and healthy.
Healthy Families
Get
Smart with Fruits and Veggies
Learn cost-saving ideas for incorporating more fruits and veggies into
your life with these 5 tip sheets.
Emergency
Planning Tips if You're Pregnant or Have Young Children
If you are pregnant or have infants or young children, find out how to
plan for an emergency or disaster.
Babies
and Toddlers: Parenting Tips
Preschoolers:
Parenting Tips
Middle
Childhood: Parenting Tips
Adolescence:
Parenting Tips
Discover positive ways to help your child develop with these positive parenting
tips.
Healthy Communities
Electronic
Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
Electronic aggression is defined as any kind of harassment or bullying
that occurs through email, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites, blogs,
or text messaging. This brief summarizes what is known, provides strategies
for addressing the issue with young people, and discusses the implications
for school staff, education policy makers, and parents and caregivers.
Infectious Diseases
in the Homeless Podcast
There are an estimated 100 million homeless people worldwide today, and
this number is likely to grow. The homeless population is vulnerable to
many diseases, including HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis. Dr. McDonald
discusses why this population is so vulnerable.
Youth@Work: Talking
Safety
This foundation curriculum in occupational safety and health is dedicated
to reducing occupational injuries and illnesses among youth. This curriculum
is meant to be used in a classroom or other group training setting, and
has been customized for each state and Puerto Rico to address state-specific
rules and regulations. The entire booklet includes instructions for teachers
and a step-by-step guide for presenting the material.
Most U.S.
Measles Cases Reported Since 1996
More measles cases have been reported in the United States since Jan. 1,
2008 than during the same period in any year since 1996, according to a
new report. Measles is consistently one of the first diseases to reappear
when immunization coverage rates fall.
Protect Yourself
and Others during Hurricane Season
Families can cope with hurricanes by preparing in advance and working together
as a team.
Help
Older Adults Live Better, Longer: Prevent Falls and Traumatic Brain Injury
Webcast (Public Health Grand Rounds)
One goal of the September 25, 2008 webcast is to increase the awareness
and understanding of the impact falls and fall injuries (especially Traumatic
Brain Injury (TBI)) have on older adults and on our health care system.
Another goal is to promote a national dialogue on using evidence-based
interventions in communities across the United States to prevent falls
and fall injuries such as TBI among older adults.
Healthiest
Nation Alliance (HNA)
Although the United States invests more than any other country in healthcare,
our nation is not as healthy as most developed nations. The Healthiest
Nation Alliance proposes that our Nation can and must invest more to protect
health. Make health the “default choice” for all people and
all communities. Join to help America become one of the world’s healthiest
nations.
Science and Research
VERB™
Campaign (9/4/08)
Extensive details about the planning and implementation of the VERB™
campaign are provided in this special issue of the American Journal of
Preventive Medicine (Volume 34, Issue 6, Supplement 1). Eleven articles
cover a wide range of descriptive and analytic material including developing
the brand, building partnerships with community groups, the experiential
marketing strategy, and how the campaign reached ethnic audiences.
Trends
in HIV- and STD-Related Risk Behaviors among High School Students-
United States, 1991-2007 (9/4/08)
Young persons who engage in unprotected sexual intercourse or use injection
drugs are at increased risk for HIV infection and STDs. This report analyzes
changes in HIV- and STD-related risk behaviors among high school students
in the United States during 1991-2007.
Adoption
Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for Children to Adopt by Women
18-44 Years of Age in the United States, 2002 
(9/4/08)
This report presents national estimates of the prevalence of adoption for
men and women 18–44 years of age, the demand for children to adopt
by women, and women’s preferences for characteristics of the adopted
child. U.S. men aged 18-44 years are more than twice as likely as women
of the same age group to have adopted a child. Among all women aged 18–44
in 2002, only 1.1% had adopted a child and 1.6% were currently seeking
to adopt.
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