Primary Navigation for the CDC Website
CDC en EspaƱol


Family Health

Family Health

Image
Helping families be safer, healthier, and stronger

In the Spotlight

Keep Kids Safe and Healthy This Summer
It’s summertime! Be extra vigilant to prevent injury and keep your kids safe and healthy this summer.

Become a Text4Baby Partner
Text4baby delivers free health tips three times a week via cell phone text messages to pregnant women and new moms. The free messages are timed to a woman's due date or the baby's date of birth. Find out what you can do to help raise awareness and become an outreach partner.

Kids’ Health RSS
Stay updated with new content from CDC on kids’ health. From this page you can subscribe to CDC or other US Government RSS feeds or view content directly on this page without having to use an aggregator. Subscribe to the Kids’ Health RSS feed.

Healthy Families

Healthy Living Tips for You and Your Child
It's never too early or too late to address the health of your family. These tips will help you get your children on track to living a healthy life.

What are the Reasons to Vaccinate My Baby?
Protecting your child's health and safety is very important to you. That's why most parents choose immunization. Nothing protects babies better from 14 serious childhood diseases. Choose to immunize. It's the powerful defense that's safe, proven and effective.

Help Your Child Manage Diabetes at School
Make a plan to help your child manage diabetes at school. Start by meeting with school staff and by making sure your child has the necessary supplies for routine care and blood sugar emergencies.

Focus on Preventing Falls
We all want to protect our older family members and help them stay safe, secure, and independent. Knowing how to reduce the risk of falling, a leading cause of injury, is a step toward this goal.

Genomics and Heart Disease
Having close biological relatives with heart disease can increase your risk of developing this disease. Family health history offers important information to help you and your family members understand health risks and prevent disease.

TOP OF PAGE

Healthy Communities

VFC Program: Vaccines for Uninsured Children
The Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program offers vaccines at no cost for eligible children through VFC-enrolled doctors. Find out if your child qualifies. Vaccinating on time means healthier children, families and communities.

Children, the Flu, and the Flu Vaccine
Influenza (“the flu”) is more dangerous than the common cold for children. Each year, many children get sick with seasonal influenza.

Health and Safety for College Students
College brings excitement, challenges, changes, risks, and responsibilities. Making friends, dating, being independent, and learning new things are rewarding, but they can also be stressful. Learn steps you can take to enjoy college the safe and healthy way.

6 in 10 Adults Now Get Physical Activity by Walking
More people are walking but most do not get enough physical activity. Find out how we can make it easier for people to walk to the places they need and want to go.

Safe Youth. Safe Schools.
Keep children safe. While our nation's schools are expected to be safe havens for learning, unintentional injuries and even violence can occur, disrupting the educational process and negatively affecting the school and surrounding community.

Cancer Prevention Starts in Childhood
Reduce your children's risk of getting many types of cancer later in life. Start by helping them adopt a healthy lifestyle with good eating habits and plenty of exercise to keep a healthy weight. Then follow the tips below to help prevent specific types of cancer.

Reducing Teen Pregnancy: Engaging Communities
CDC works to improve the lives of young people and strengthen communities by reducing teen pregnancy. Learn about CDC's communitywide initiative and what you can do.

TOP OF PAGE

Science and Research

National and State Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13–17 Years — United States, 2011
From 2010 to 2011, vaccination coverage among U.S. adolescents increased for ≥1 dose of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine to 78.2%, ≥1 dose of meningococcal conjugate (MenACWY) vaccine to 70.5%, and ≥1 dose and ≥3 doses of HPV vaccine among females to 53.0% and 34.8%, respectively.

Injuries from Batteries Among Children Aged <13 Years — United States, 1995–2010
Nearly three quarters of the injuries involved children aged ≤4 years; 10% required hospitalization. Battery type was reported for 69% of cases, and of those, button batteries were implicated in 58%. Fourteen fatal injuries were identified in children ranging in age from 7 months to 3 years during 1995–2010.

Vaccination Coverage among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2011–12 School Year
Sustaining high vaccination coverage among school children is vital to prevent outbreaks and avoid reestablishment of diseases that have been eliminated in the United States. Although statewide levels of vaccination coverage are at or very near target levels, locally low vaccination coverage for extremely transmissible diseases such as measles remains a threat to health.

Current Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2011
CDC analyzed data from the 2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which indicated that, in 2011, the prevalence of current tobacco use among middle school and high school students was 7.1% and 23.2%, respectively, and the prevalence of current cigarette use was 4.3%, and 15.8%, respectively.

America's Children In Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2012
This report uses the most recently available and reliable official federal statistics to describe the family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health of America's children and youth.

TOP OF PAGE

PDF symbol This site contains documents in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the file. If you do not have the Acrobat Reader, you may download a free copy from the Adobe Web site.

Content Source: CDC Office of Women’s Health
Page last modified: September 18, 2012
Page last reviewed: September 18, 2012