Awareness Calendar for October

Month:

  • ADHD
  • AIDS (December is more popularized as AIDS awareness month, but October is a secondary month)
  • America Pharmacists
  • Breast Cancer
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Depression Education and Awareness
  • Disability Employment
  • Domestic Violence
  • Down Syndrome
  • Dwarfism
  • Dysautonomia
  • Dyslexia
  • Emotional Wellness
  • Ergonomics
  • Eye Injury
  • Gaucher Disease
  • Health Literacy
  • Healthy Lungs
  • Home Eye Safety
  • LGBT History
  • Liver
  • Long-Term Care Planning
  • Medical Librarians
  • Medical Ultrasound
  • Menopause
  • Niemann-Pick Disease
  • Organize Your Medical Information
  • Orthodontic Health
  • Patient-Centered Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss
  • Residents’ Rights
  • Rett Syndrome
  • SIDS
  • Spina Bifida
  • Talk About Your Medicines

Day/week:

  • International Day of Non-Violence (2)
  • Child Health Day (2)
  • National Primary Care Week (2-6)
  • World Cerebral Palsy Day (3)
  • World Animal Day (4)
  • National Taco Day (4)
  • World Cerebral Palsy Day (6)
  • Mental Illness Awareness Week (7-13)
  • World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (8)
  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day (9)
  • World Mental Health Day (10)
  • National Coming Out Day (11)
  • National Depression Screening Day (11)
  • Bone and Joint Health National Action Week (12-20)
  • World Thrombosis Day (13)
  • Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (13)
  • National Dessert Day (14)
  • International Infection Prevention Week (14-20)
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day (15)
  • National Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (15)
  • White Cane Safety Day (15)
  • Global Handwashing Day (15)
  • National White Cane Safety Day (15)
  • National Healthcare Quality Week (15-21)
  • World Food Day (16)
  • World Spine Day (16)
  • National Health Education Week (16-20)
  • World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day (19)
  • Asexual Awareness Week (19-25)
  • World Osteoporosis Day (20)
  • National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day (21)
  • International Stuttering Awareness Day (22)
  • Respiratory Care Week (22-28)
  • Lung Health Day (25)
  • Intersex Awareness Day (26)
  • World Stroke Day (29)
  • World Psoriasis Day (29)
  • Lung Health Day (31)