Healthy Lifestyle Calendar of Events

Healthy Lifestyle Calendar of Events

January

• National Walk to Promote Physical Activity
• Walk to Work Initiative
• Setting Health Goals
• Healthy Dozen Club Promotion

February

• Heart Health Awareness Month
• Go Red For Women
• Bahamas Heart Association Health Fair
• Building Healthy Communities

March

• Health in the Workplace
• Asthma Month
• Smoke free clean air
• Drug Prevention

April

• National Nutrition Awareness Month
• Kidney Health Awareness
• Child Protection Month

May

• Mothers Day- Women's Health
• Healthy Youths
• Mental Health Awareness

June

• Fathers Day- Men's Health
• Hypertension Awareness Month

July

• Sports Safety/ Nutritional Guidance
• Healthy Lifestyles Travel Tips
• Breastfeeding a Healthy Start

August

• Back to School Health Tips
• Stress / Conflict Resolutions

September

• Grandparents Month
• Prostate Health Awareness
• Maintaining Healthy Lifestyle in the Junkanoo Shacks
• Annual Preventive Health Check

October

• Breast Cancer Awareness
• Family Health Month
• Older Persons Month

November

• Diabetes Awareness Month
• Diabetic Health Expo
• Safe Motherhood/Raising Healthy Children
• National Women's Week (Women Affairs Bureau)
• Male Health Initiative

December

• Healthy Holiday Food Choices
• Decrease alcohol
• Food Safety
• Health and Safety during Junkanoo
• Know Your Status! HIV, CNCD/ Diabetes