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September is Healthy Aging Month.
September is Healthy Aging Month – “an annual occurrence to raise awareness about the positive aspects of growing older”. In honor of Healthy Aging Month, we’d like to take this time to highlight an exciting new initiative that recently launched here in Jacksonville, the Blue Zones Project. The Blue Zones Project is focused on lengthening and strengthening the lives of our entire community. Their mission is “informed and inspired by the world’s longest-lived cultures…[and] is
National Health Center Week is August 8th – 14th.
It’s National Health Center Week! Health centers “are community-based health care providers that receive funds from the HRSA Health Center Program to provide primary care services in underserved areas. They must meet a stringent set of requirements, including providing care on a sliding fee scale based on ability to pay and operating under a governing board that includes patients”. This week serves as “an annual celebration with the goal of raising awareness about the mission
July 28th is World Hepatitis Day.
It’s World Hepatitis Day. A day that brings “the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change”. In honor of World Hepatitis Day, JaxCareConnect would like to take this time to highlight one of our amazing community partners, CAN Community Health, and the way they are helping communities fight against hepatitis C and other viruses and diseases. CAN Community Health’s mission “is
June is Pride Month.
June is Pride Month. Which is the “most visible symbol of the global movement for [LGBTQIA+] equality, celebrating progress, affirming the existence of [LGBTQIA+] people, and demanding recognition of their basic human rights”. In honor of Pride Month, JaxCareConnect would like to take this time to highlight the health disparities that disproportionately affect the LGBTQIA+ community. We highlight these disparities because they are associated with enormous inequities and, viewed through the lens of social determinants,
Memorial Day: Honoring Our Veterans
Each year on the last Monday in May, we celebrate Memorial Day. “Originally called Decoration Day, [Memorial Day] is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America”. Thank you to all of our active military personnel and anyone who has bravely served this country. In honor of Memorial Day, we’d like to take this time to highlight the issue of homelessness within the veteran community. We
April 7th is World Health Day
Each year on April 7th, we celebrate #WorldHealthDay. Since its inception in 1948, World Health Day “has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organization”. This year’s World Health Day theme is: Our Planet, Our Health. The Our Planet, Our Health campaign focuses on “urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a movement to create societies focused