FP Report -- July 1999
Order new Family Health Month kit now
October, Family Health Month, is family physicians' annual opportunity to promote their specialty and their practices and publicize key health issues to patients.
The AAFP Committee on a Communications has completely revamped the materials and activities for this year's celebration of Family Health Month. Four themes, one for each week in October, focus on breast cancer, talking with children about tough subjects, elder abuse and mental health awareness. A September-October calendar guides family physicians and their staffs in involving local media and patients in the month's activities.
The new Family Health Month kit contains easy-to-personalize press releases, opinion columns, news releases, public service announcements and a banner for the office. Family physicians may also request a video news release for local TV stations to play.
The kit, item #R039, will be available to members by late July for $20. Call the AAFP order department at (800) 944-0000.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1999 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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