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Healthy Families
School is
Starting - Make Sure Your Children are Fully Vaccinated
Children of all ages are heading back to school, so now is a good time to
make sure that your kids are fully vaccinated. Online tools and information
from CDC can help parents and doctors keep children up to date with the
vaccines they need.
CDC Advisors
Make Recommendations for Use of Vaccine against Novel H1N1
CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices developed recommendations
on who should receive vaccine against novel influenza A (H1N1) when it
becomes available. The committee recommends vaccination efforts focus on
five key populations. The key populations include those who are at higher
risk of disease or complications, those who are likely to come in contact
with novel H1N1, and those who could infect young infants. The novel H1N1
vaccine is not intended to replace the seasonal flu vaccine.
Parents, School
Success, and Health Podcast
In this podcast, Dr. William Jeynes, CDC Parenting Speaker Series guest,
discusses the importance of parental involvement in children's academic
success and lifelong health.
Keep Your Cool in Hot
Weather
Learn more about heat-related illness and how to stay cool and well in hot
weather.
Protect Your Family
from Rabies
Rabies is a dangerous virus that anyone can get if they handle or get bitten
by an animal that has the disease. Protect yourself and your family from
rabies. Stay away from wild animals and be sure pets are vaccinated every
year.
Learn More about Fragile X
Syndrome
Fragile X syndrome is the most common known cause of intellectual disability
that can be inherited. CDC and its partners have been working on several
public health activities to find out more about fragile X syndrome.
Cancer Prevention
Starts in Childhood
Reduce your children's risk of getting many types of cancer later in life.
Start by helping them adopt a healthy lifestyle with good eating habits and
plenty of exercise to keep a healthy weight. Learn tips to help prevent
specific types of cancer.
Healthy Communities
Learn to Prevent and
Recognize Concussions
CDC's youth sports tool kit teaches coaches, athletes, and parents to play
it safe when it comes to concussions.
Recommended
Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United
States
This report contains 24 recommended obesity prevention strategies focusing
on environmental and policy level change initiatives that can be implemented
by local governments and school districts to promote healthy eating and
active living.
West Nile Virus
A single mosquito bite can give you West Nile virus. Improve your odds of
avoiding it. Use repellent.
Science and Research
Aging
Differently: Physical Limitations among Adults Aged 50 Years and Over:
United States, 2001-2007 (8/10/09)
Many adults experience increases in physical limitations with age. For each
age and race group, women are more likely than men of the same age to have
one or more physical limitations. Differences between men and women in the
prevalence of one or more physical limitations widens with increasing age.
Differences
in Prevalence of Obesity among Black, White, and Hispanic Adults- United
States, 2006-2008 (8/10/09)
During 2006-2008, the age-adjusted estimated prevalence of obesity overall
was 25.6 percent among non-Hispanic blacks, non-Hispanic whites, and
Hispanics. Non-Hispanic black women had the greatest prevalence (39.2
percent), followed by non-Hispanic black men (31.6 percent), Hispanic women
(29.4 percent), Hispanic men (27.8 percent), non-Hispanic white men (25.4
percent), and non-Hispanic white women (21.8 percent).
Cancer in Children
(8/10/09)
Although cancer is a leading cause of death among children in the United
States, childhood cancer deaths are declining.
Obesity
Prevalence among Low-Income, Preschool-Aged Children- United States,
1998-2008 (8/10/09)
The findings indicated that obesity prevalence among low-income,
preschool-aged children increased steadily from 12.4 percent in 1998 to 14.5
percent in 2003, but subsequently remained essentially the same, with a 14.6
percent prevalence in 2008. Reducing childhood obesity will require
effective prevention strategies that focus on environments and policies
promoting physical activity and a healthy diet for families, child care
centers, and communities.
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Page last modified:
August 10, 2009
Page last reviewed: August 10, 2009