Family Health
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Healthy Living Calendars
2012 Healthy Living Calendars are here! Take a moment to view these one-page calendars that promote taking simple steps for a safe and healthy life.
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Text4baby delivers free health tips three times a week via cell phone text
messages to pregnant women and new moms. The free messages are timed to a
woman's due date or the baby's date of birth. Find out what you can do to
help raise awareness and become an outreach partner.
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Healthy Families
Be Healthy and Safe in the Garden
Stay safe and healthy while enjoying the benefits of gardening.
Meditation and Health
Tell your health care providers about any complementary and alternative practices you use. Give them a full picture of what you do to manage your health. Do not use meditation as a replacement for conventional care or as a reason to postpone seeing a doctor about a medical problem.
Keeping Backyard Poultry
Live poultry, such as chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys, often carry harmful germs called Salmonella. After you touch a bird, or anything in the area where they live and roam, wash your hands so you don't get sick!
Asthma Awareness
Asthma is one of the most common lifelong chronic diseases. There are almost 26 million Americans living with asthma. Although asthma cannot be cured, it is possible to manage asthma successfully to reduce and prevent asthma attacks, also called episodes.
Be Food Safe: Protect Yourself from Food Poisoning
Everyone is at risk for food poisoning. To reduce your risk, be savvy about how germs can be found in contaminated food and sometimes make you sick. There are things that you can do to protect yourself.
Safe and Healthy Travel for Senior Citizens
Learn how senior citizens can prepare for safe and healthy travel to international destinations.
Healthy Communities
Healthy Community Design
Make the healthy choice the easy choice in your community by creating opportunities for physical activity, healthy food access, transportation choices, social engagement, traffic injury and crime reduction, and accessibility for all incomes and abilities.
Food Safety at Fairs and Festivals
A fun summer activity is attending fairs, festivals, carnivals, and rodeos. Follow these tips to have a safe cooking, eating, and drinking experience at those events.
Science and Research
Short Sleep Duration Among Workers - United States, 2010
CDC analyzed data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. The analysis compared sleep duration by age group, race/ethnicity, sex, marital status, education, and employment characteristics. Overall, 30.0% of civilian employed U.S. adults (approximately 40.6 million workers) reported an average sleep duration of ≤6 hours per day. The prevalence of short sleep duration (≤6 hours per day) varied by industry of employment.
Fertility of Men and Women Aged 15–44 Years in the United States: National Survey of Family Growth, 2006–2010
On average, women aged 15–44 have 1.3 children as of the time of the interview. By age 40, 85% of women had had a birth, and 76% of men had fathered a child. In 2006–2010, 22% of first births to women occurred within cohabiting unions, up from 12% in 2002. These measures differed by Hispanic origin and race and other demographic characteristics.
Characteristics and Use of Home Health Care by Men and Women Aged 65 and Over
Among home health care patients 65 years and over, women were more likely to be 85 years and over while men were more likely to be married and receive home health care as post-acute care. Among home health care patients who were 65 years and over, cancer was more prevalent among men, and essential hypertension was more common among women.
Residents Living in Residential Care Facilities: United States, 2010
The majority of residents living in residential care facilities in 2010 were non-Hispanic white and female. More than one-half of all residents were aged 85 and over.
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