Family Health
In the Spotlight
Camping Health and Safety
Tips and Packing Checklist
Follow these tips and use the packing checklist to help ensure your
camping trip is safe and healthy.
Family Reunion Health and Safety Tips
If you are planning or participating in a family reunion, take steps to
make healthy living a part of family activities for a lifetime.
Safe and Healthy Bride
As you plan your wedding and new life together, be sure to include health
and safety in your plans! Do you know a bride-to-be? Send her a
healthy wedding or
healthy bride e-card!
Healthy Families
It's Spring: Time to
Prevent Lyme Disease
When you're outside this spring and summer, prevent tick bites, and reduce
your risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disease by following these
tips.
Get the Picture:
Childhood Immunizations
Vaccines are one of the best ways to protect your children's health. But
maybe you've also heard other things about vaccines, and now you have
questions. CDC created this short video to help answer the real questions
parents have about childhood immunizations.
Protect Your Child against
Rotavirus
Rotavirus is a virus that causes severe diarrhea, mostly in babies and young
children. The good news is that there are vaccines to prevent rotavirus. Be
sure to protect your child from serious illness caused by rotavirus by
getting him or her vaccinated.
Health Begins at
Home
Clean and well-maintained homes can help prevent many illnesses and
injuries. Learn how good health begins at home and how to identify several
common problems and simple solutions.
Healthy Communities
Promoting
Healthy Parenting Practices across Cultural Groups: A CDC Research Brief
This brief summarizes findings on cultural values, parenting, and child
rearing. It examines the ways that parents respond to children’s behavior
and their views of desirable or undesirable parenting practices. Uncovering
the differences and commonalities in values, normative practices, and
child-rearing goals across cultural groups is an important step in
developing culturally-competent and effective programs and support for
parents of all cultural backgrounds.
School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors among
Youth
This publication identifies six strategies that teachers, administrators,
other school staff, and parents can implement to increase the extent to
which students feel connected to school.
Schools Can Help
Teach our Youth to Live Tobacco-Free
Because four out of every five persons who use tobacco begin before they
become adults, tobacco prevention activities should focus on school-age
children and adolescents. Evidence suggests that school health programs can
prevent tobacco use among youth. If your child's school doesn't have a
prevention program, talk to administrators about starting one. Not sure how?
Here are a few ideas.
Science and Research
Sociodemographic Differences in Binge Drinking among Adults- 14 States, 2004
(5/19/09)
Binge drinking is a risk factor for numerous adverse health and social
outcomes, including alcohol poisoning, hypertension, acute myocardial
infarction, sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancy, fetal
alcohol syndrome, sudden infant death syndrome, suicide, interpersonal
violence, and motor vehicle crashes. This report indicates that binge
drinking is common among U.S. adults, especially among whites, males,
persons aged 18-34 years, and those with household incomes greater than
$50,000.
HIV-Associated Behaviors among Injecting-Drug Users (IDUs)- 23 Cities,
United States, May 2005-February 2006 (5/19/09)
The results indicated that, during that period, 31.8% of participating IDUs
reported sharing syringes, and 62.6% had unprotected vaginal sex; 71.5% had
been tested for HIV, and 27.4% had participated in an HIV behavioral
intervention. These data can help guide local, state, and national
prevention services tailored to IDUs at risk for HIV infection and other
bloodborne or sexually transmitted infections.
CDC's Autism and
Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (5/19/09)
Learn more about the only collaborative network to determine the prevalence
of the autism spectrum disorders in the United States.
Births: Preliminary Data for 2007
(5/19/09)
This report presents preliminary data for 2007 on births in the United
States. U.S. data on births are shown by age, live-birth order, race, and
Hispanic origin of mother. Data on marital status, cesarean delivery,
preterm births, and low birthweight are also presented.
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Content Source: CDC Office
of Women’s Health
Page last modified:
May 19, 2009
Page last reviewed: May 19, 2009