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We invite you to partner with us to raise awareness about
this year's National Child Health Day/Month, October 4, 2004.
This year's theme, Eat Healthy, Move More: Partnering
with Families to Prevent Childhood Overweight/Obesity,
emphasizes the importance of engaging children and families
in your community in activities and dialogue surrounding the
prevention of childhood overweight/obesity.
The Health
Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Maternal and
Child Health Bureau (MCHB) has produced the following National
Child Health Day/Month Web materials to help you reach out
to children and families in yoru community and spread the
Eat Healthy, Move more message:
- Sample
proclamation for you to use in your community
- Promotion
Guide to help you plan events and conducting media outreach
- History
of National Child Health Day
- Clip
art for use in developing your own Child Health Day
materials
- Links
to other Web sites with materials that offer a host of relevant
information
On behalf
of HRSA and MCHB, thank you for partnering with us this year
for National Child Health Day/Month. With your help, we can
promptly address this critical but preventable child health
issue.
Peter
C. van Dyck, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Administrator for Maternal and Child Health
Health
Resources and Services Administration
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