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1. HEALTH EDUCATION AND INFORMATION : EVENTS: National Health Informati
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:02 am ((PST))
HEALTH EDUCATION AND INFORMATION : EVENTS:
National Health Information Center:
2007 National Health Observances
National Health Information Center:
2007 National Health Observances
<http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/nho.asp>
Health observances are days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting
particular health concerns.
This calendar lists selected health observances for 2007 in three ways:
the calendar shows days and weeks, and both the text listings and the Year
At a Glance sheet show monthly health observances as well.
Health professionals, teachers, community groups, and others can use these
special times to sponsor health promotion events, stimulate awareness of
health risks, or focus on disease prevention. Materials available from
sponsoring organizations range from a single flyer to packets of
promotional materials.
Information appearing in this document does not represent an endorsement
by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion or the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, which do not have any role in
naming national health observances.
For more information, please contact the sponsoring organization directly.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Affairs Contacts
This information is in the public domain, and duplication is encouraged.
Please provide an appropriate credit line in any reproduction of this
information, whether print or electronic: Source: 2007 National Health
Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Washington, DC.
Content Sample February and March 2007
February
1 - 28
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
Prevent Blindness America
211 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60606
(800) 331-2020
(847) 843-8458 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.preventblindness.org
Materials available
Contact: PBA Consumer and Patient Hotline
1 - 28
American Heart Month
American Heart Association
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
(800) 242-8721
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.americanheart.org
Materials available
Contact: Program departments or local chapters
1 - 28
National Childrens Dental Health Month
American Dental Association
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 440-2500
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ada.org/goto/ncdhm
Materials available
Contact: Department of Public Information
1 - 28
National Wise Health Consumer Month
American Institute for Preventive Medicine
30445 Northwestern Highway, Suite 350
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
(248) 539-1800 x222
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.healthylife.com
Contact: Sue Jackson
1 - 28
Prenatal Infection Prevention Month
Group B Strep International
61 Carver Road
West Wareham, MA 02576
(508) 273-7247
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.groupbstrepinternational.org
Materials available
Contact: John MacDonald
2
Give Kids A Smile Day
American Dental Association
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 440-2500
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ada.org/goto/gkas
Materials available
Contact: Department of Public Information
2
National Wear Red Day 2007
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Information Center
Attention: The Heart Truth
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
(301) 592-8573
(240) 629-3255 TTY
(301) 592-8563 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth
Materials available
Contact: Information Specialist
4 - 10
National Burn Awareness Week
Shriners International Headquarters
P.O. Box 31356
Tampa, FL 33631
(813) 281-0300
http://www.shrinershq.org
Materials available
Contact: Public Relations
7 - 14
Congenital Heart Awareness Week
Congenital Heart Information Network
600 North 3rd Street, First Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19123
(215) 627-4034
(215) 627-4306 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.tchin.org/aware
Materials available
Contact: Mona Barmash
11 - 17
Children of Alcoholics Week
National Association for Children of Alcoholics
11426 Rockville Pike, Suite 301
Rockville, MD 20852
(888) 554-2627
(301) 468-0987 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nacoa.org
Materials available
Contact: Gail Jordan
12 - 17
National Condom Week
American Social Health Association
P.O. Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
(919) 361-8400
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ashastd.org
Materials available
Contact: ASHA Media Relations Office
14
National Donor Day
Division of Transplantation, OSP, HRSA
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Parklawn Building, Room 16C-17
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
(301) 443-7577
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.organdonor.gov
Materials available
Contact: Division of Transplantation Staff
16
National Women's Heart Day
Sister to Sister: Everyone Has A Heart Foundation, Inc.
4701 Williard Avenue, Suite 223
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
(301) 718-8033
(301) 718-8620 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.womansheartday.org
Materials available
Contact: None designated
25 - March 3
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Eating Disorders Association
603 Stewart Street, Suite 803
Seattle, WA 98101
(800) 931-2239 Information and Referral Helpline
(206) 382-3587
(206) 829-8501 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
Materials available
Contact: Tonia Brown
March
1 - 31
National Brain Injury Awareness Month
Brain Injury Association of America
8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 611
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 761-0750
(703) 761-0755 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.biausa.org
Materials available
Contact: Communications Coordinator
1 - 31
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation
1600 Duke Street, Suite 500
Alexandria, VA 22314
(800) 227-2732
(877) 35-COLON (352-6566) Materials Ordering
(703) 886-4413 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.preventcancer.org/colorectal
Materials available
Contact: Cindy Iverson
1 - 31
National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
6350 North Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
(800) 225-6495
(954) 938-8708 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.msfocus.org
Materials available
Contact: Annette Woods
1 - 31
National Nutrition Month
American Dietetic Association
120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000
Chicago, IL 60606-6995
(800) 877-1600 x4771
(312) 899-4790 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.eatright.org
Materials available
Contact: Knowledge Center
1 - 31
Save Your Vision Month
American Optometric Association
243 North Lindbergh Boulevard, First Floor
St. Louis, MO 63141
(314) 991-4100
(314) 991-4101 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.aoa.org
Materials available
Contact: Julie Mahoney
1 - 31
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Prevent Blindness America
211 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60606
(800) 331-2020
(847) 843-8458 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.preventblindness.org
Materials available
Contact: PBA Consumer and Patient Hotline
4 - 10
National Patient Safety Awareness Week
National Patient Safety Foundation
132 MASS MoCA Way
North Adams, MA 01247
(413) 663-8900
(413) 663-8905 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.npsf.org
Materials available
Contact: None designated
5 - 11
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
733 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(800) 344-4867
(212) 986-3240
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nationalmssociety.org
Materials available
Contact: Annie Hammel
5 - 11
National Problem Gambling Awareness Week
National Council on Problem Gambling
216 G Street NE, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 547-9204
(202) 547-9206 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.npgaw.org
Materials available
Contact: Keith Whyte
5 - 11
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Sleep Foundation
1522 K Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 347-3471
(202) 347-3472 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.sleepfoundation.org
Materials available
Contact: None designated
5 - 9
National School Breakfast Week
School Nutrition Association
700 South Washington Street, Suite 300
Alexandria, VA 22314-4287
(800) 877-8822
(703) 739-3900
(703) 739-3915 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.schoolnutrition.org
Materials available
Contact: Andrew Steele
12 - 18
Brain Awareness Week
Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives
745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 900
New York, NY 10151
(212) 223-4040
(212) 593-7623 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dana.org/brainweek
Materials available
Contact: Kathleen Roina
18 - 24
National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week
National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
322-A Thompson Street
Chattanooga, TN 37405
(800) 269-4237
(423) 265-4889 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inhalants.org
Materials available
Contact: Harvey Weiss
24
World Tuberculosis Day 2007
WHO Regional Office for the Americas
Communicable Disease Unit
525 23rd Street NW
Washington, DC 20037-2895
(202) 974-3848
(202) 974-3656 Fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.who.int/gtb/index.htm
Materials available
Contact: None designated
27
American Diabetes Alert Day
American Diabetes Association
1701 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311
(800) DIABETES
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.diabetes.org/communityprograms-and-localevents/
americandiabetesalert.jsp>
Materials available
Contact: Local Chapters or National Office
To get through the entire year of health improvement celebrations, please
visit the URL at the top of this post.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:18 am ((PST))
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GOOGLE: BOOKS:
Google's Moon Shot: The Quest for the Universal Library
Google's Moon Shot: The Quest for the Universal Library
by JEFFREY TOOBIN
Issue of 2007-02-05
Posted 2007-01-29
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070205fa_fact_toobin>
Every weekday, a truck pulls up to the Cecil H. Green Library, on the
campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books,
which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into
an enormous database being created by Google. The company is also
retrieving books from libraries at several other leading universities,
including Harvard and Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library. At
the University of Michigan, Googles original partner in Google Book
Search, tens of thousands of books are processed each week on the companys
custom-made scanning equipment.
Google intends to scan every book ever published, and to make the full
texts searchable, in the same way that Web sites can be searched on the
companys engine at google.com. At the books site, which is up and running
in a beta (or testing) version, at books.google.com, you can enter a word
or phrasesay, Ahab and whaleand the search returns a list of works in
which the terms appear, in this case nearly eight hundred titles,
including numerous editions of Herman Melvilles novel. Clicking on
Moby-Dick, or The Whale calls up Chapter 28, in which Ahab is introduced.
You can scroll through the chapter, search for other terms that appear in
the book, and compare it with other editions. Google wont say how many
books are in its database, but the sites value as a research tool is
apparent; on it you can find a history of Urdu newspapers, an 1892 edition
of Jane Austens letters, several guides to writing haiku, and a Harvard
alumni directory from 1919.
No one really knows how many books there are. The most volumes listed in
any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a database of
titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around the world.
Google aims to scan at least that many. We think that we can do it all
inside of ten years, Marissa Mayer, a vice-president at Google who is in
charge of the books project, said recently, at the companys headquarters,
in Mountain View, California. Its mind-boggling to me, how close it is. I
think of Google Books as our moon shot.
Googles is not the only book-scanning venture. Amazon has digitized
hundreds of thousands of the books it sells, and allows users to search
the texts; Carnegie Mellon is hosting a project called the Universal
Library, which so far has scanned nearly a million and a half books; the
Open Content Alliance, a consortium that includes Microsoft, Yahoo, and
several major libraries, is also scanning thousands of books; and there
are many smaller projects in various stages of development. Still, only
Google has embarked on a project of a scale commensurate with its
corporate philosophy: to organize the worlds information and make it
universally accessible and useful.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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