National Child Health Day
National Child Health Day:
Celebrated on First Monday of October, every year. National Child health Day is one of the well-known federal holidays observed in the United States.
Year | Date | Day | Where |
2023 | 2nd October | Monday | United States |
2023 | 7th October | Monday | United States |
2025 | 6th October | Monday | United States |
Twitter Hashtags:
#NationalChildHealthDay
#ChildHealthDay
Related: Other National Days Celebrated on October:
National Pharmacy Technician Day
Why National Child Health Day?
This National Child Health Day demands all the parents and the foster care Organisation to concentrate even more on Child Health issues and to propagate about certain simple prevention mechanisms to make us all aware of the necessity to protect our children from harmful diseases or infections.
How we can Observe National Child Health Day:
Provide your tips to nurture children using this hashtag #ChildHealthDay on the social media. In addition, Children are easily prone to disease, so make sure that proper precautions taken to ensure your Child Health.
What we do is we give food to fill stomach, probably not to strengthen the muscles. Certainly, I perceived that my daughter needs little more nutritions.so I prepared a health mix by using ingredients like Brown rice, Barley, peanuts, cashew nuts, almonds, Walnuts, wheat (all roasted separately and ground).Daily, I give this powder mixed with milk. Initially she declined, I just added brown sugar and now she drinks. Try something like this.
Interesting Facts About National Child Health Day:
Children around the world faces many more health problems that humankind still strives to find the solution. Around 50 percent people in the world are not even accessible to child health care plans due to their economic factors.
Children represent the future generation, and providing nutritious food and inspecting their growth ought to be the priority of all of us.
Children are more vulnerable to diseases that occur due to malnutrition and infection, many of which can be either treated or prevented with proper medications and awareness respectively. All the representatives of all the Child Welfare associations unite and observe this day. Discussions and awareness programs pertaining to child welfare are being held on this day.
African countries are very vulnerable to disease. Mortality rate is very high in African countries comparatively to other. According to a study, roughly 82 children out of 1000 dies below five years whereas in the United States, it is around 15 as of 2015. In addition, due to the measures initiated by the Government, it is reduced to around six as of 2017.
Factors are yet to be found to sustain and focus on Zero ratio in future since children are the great souls of God and they are not supposed to die.
Other than factors like measles, mumps and rubella, another common disease is obesity. It becomes a major concern nowadays since around 18 percent of the children aged between 6 and 11 are reported to be obese. Food habits must be changed so that our future generation can come out of this peril.
Apart from this, another serious danger is skin care cosmetics, Household substances, pesticides and Analgesics. More than 100000 cases were reported as pediatric poisoning caused by harmful chemical products and accidental injury.
Another major concern is affordability to treatments. As we all know, Treatment cost is very huge in the United States and almost a large number of children were not covered in health insurance schemes. Due to actions taken by the government, it has improvised to some extent. Around 28.5 million children are insured as a part of Medicaid and is expected to more in the upcoming years. We have certain hurdles that has to be identified and removed so that all the children could be enrolled in future.
History of National Child Health Day:
This is a national federal observance day and been enforced as a holiday since 1928.The first celebrations were held during the year 1929; however, the exact date was not declared. In the year 2017, the United States president Donald Trump officially declared October 2, the first Monday in October, as the National Child Health Day. From there on, it is being celebrated on an annual basis.