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As part of UK HealthCare’s mission, we are called to promote better health for the people of Kentucky through creative leadership and quality initiatives in patient care, health education and medical research.

We are proud to collaborate with the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service to provide research-based materials to help you educate and empower the citizens of the Commonwealth for better health.

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Join the conversation and get up-the-minute news and health information from UK HealthCare by reading our blogHealthMatters provides health and wellness information from the experts at UK HealthCare along with interviews with our providers.

Monthly Health Observances - 2023

January

  • Cervical Health Awareness Month
  • Integrative Health Month
  • National Birth Defects Prevention Month
  • National Blood Donor Month
  • National Glaucoma Awareness Month
  • National Radon Action Month
  • National Stalking Awareness Month
  • Thyroid Awareness Month

January 3, 2023

  • International Mind-Body Wellness Day

February

  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration Awareness Month
  • American Heart Month
  • International Prenatal Prevention Infection Month
  • National Cancer Prevention Month
  • National Children's Dental Health Month
  • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

February 3, 2023

  • Give Kids a Smile Day
  • National Wear Red Day
  • National Women Physicians Day

February 4, 2023

  • World Cancer Day

February 7, 2023

  • National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

February 7 - 14, 2023

  • Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

February 12 - 18, 2023

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
  • Heart Failure Awareness Week

February 14, 2023

  • National Donor Day

February 14 - 21, 2023

  • National Condom Week

February 17, 2023

  • National Caregiver Day

February 20 - 26, 2023

  • National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

February 22, 2023

  • Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day

February 28, 2023

  • Rare Disease Day

March

  • Brain Injury Awareness Month
  • Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
  • MS Education & Awareness Month
  • National Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
  • National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
  • National Endometriosis Awareness Month
  • National Kidney Month
  • National Nutrition Month
  • National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month
  • Save Your Vision Month
  • Trisomy Awareness Month
  • Workplace Eye Wellness Month

March 5 - 7, 2023

  • Telehealth Awareness Week

March 9, 2023

World Kidney Day

March 12 - 18, 2023

  • Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week

March 21, 2023

  • World Down Syndrome Day

April

  • Alcohol Awareness Month
  • Foot Health Awareness Month
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections Awareness Month
  • Parkinson's Awareness Month
  • Child Abuse Prevention Month
  • Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month
  • National Autism Awareness Month
  • National Donate Life Month
  • Oral Cancer Awareness Month
  • Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
  • STI Awareness Month
  • Stress Awareness Month
  • Testicular Cancer Awareness Month

April 2, 2023

  • World Autism Day

April 7, 2023

  • World Health Day

April 12 - 16, 2023

  • National Youth Violence Prevention Week

April 24 - 30, 2023

  • World Immunization Week

May

  • American Stroke Month
  • Arthritis Awareness Month
  • Better Hearing and Speech Month
  • Better Sleep Month
  • Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
  • Healthy Vision Month
  • Hepatitis Awareness Month
  • Lupus Awareness Month
  • Mental Health Awareness Month
  • National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
  • National High Blood Pressure Education Month
  • National Trauma Awareness Month
  • Skin Cancer Awareness Month

May 1, 2023

  • Melanoma Monday

May 5, 2023

  • World Hand Hygiene Day

May 6, 2023

  • National Nurses Day

May 7 - 13, 2023

  • Children's Mental Health Awareness Week
  • North American Occupational Safety and Health Week

May 14 - 20, 2023

  • Food Allergy Awareness Week
  • National Women's Health Week

May 31, 2023

  • National Senior Health and Fitness Day
  • World No Tobacco Day

June

  • Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
  • Cataract Awareness Month
  • National Safety Month
  • PTSD Awareness Month

June 4, 2023

  • National Cancer Survivors Day

June 14, 2023

  • World Blood Donor Day

June 18, 2023

  • Autistic Pride Day

June 27, 2023

  • National HIV Testing Day

July

  • Healthy Vision Month
  • Sarcoma Awareness Month

July 28, 2023

  • World Hepatitis Day

August

  • Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
  • National Breastfeeding Month
  • National Immunization Awareness Month
  • National Minority Donor Awareness Month
  • Summer Sun Safety Month

August 1, 2023

  • World Lung Cancer Day

August 1 - 7, 2023

  • World Breastfeeding Week

September

  • Blood Cancer Awareness Month
  • Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
  • Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
  • National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month
  • National Cholesterol Education Month
  • National Food Safety Education Month
  • National Recovery Month
  • National Sickle Cell Month
  • National Suicide Prevention Month
  • Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
  • Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
  • Sexual Health Awareness Month
  • Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month

September 10, 2023

  • World Suicide Prevention Day

September 10 - 16, 2023

  • National Suicide Prevention Week

September 17 - 23, 2023

  • Child Passenger Safety Week
  • National Farm Safety and Health Week

October

  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month
  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  • Eye Injury Prevention Month
  • Healthy Lung Month
  • Home Eye Safety Month
  • Liver Awareness Month
  • National ADHD Awareness Month
  • National Bullying Prevention Month
  • National Dental Hygiene Month
  • National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
  • Spina Bifida Awareness Month
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month

October 1 - 7, 2023

  • Mental Illness Awareness Week

October 16 - 22, 2023

  • National Health Education Week

October 20, 2023

  • National Mammography Day

October 29, 2023

  • National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
  • World Psoriasis Day

November

  • American Diabetes Month
  • Bladder Health Month
  • COPD Awareness Month
  • Diabetic Eye Disease Month
  • Lung Cancer Awareness Month
  • National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
  • National Epilepsy Awareness Month
  • National Family Caregivers Month
  • National Healthy Skin Month
  • National Hospice Palliative Care Month
  • National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
  • National Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
  • Prematurity Awareness Month

November 5 - 11, 2023

  • National Diabetes Education Week

November 12, 2023

  • World Pneumonia Day

November 16, 2023

  • Great American Smokeout
  • National Rural Health Day

November 17, 2023

  • World Prematurity Day

November 19 - 25, 2023

  • GERD Awareness Week

November 23, 2023

  • National Family Health History Day

December

  • National Safe Toys and Gifts Month

December 1, 2023

  • World AIDS Day

December 4 - 10, 2023

  • National Handwashing Awareness Week

December 6 - 12, 2023

  • National Influenza Vaccination Week