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Description:Make a healthy splash: share the fun, not the germs.
The week before Memorial Day, May 18–24, 2015, marks the eleventh annual Healthy and Safe Swimming Week (formerly known as Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week). As outdoor pools and beaches around the country open and Americans get ready for a summer full of swimming, this is an ideal time to maximize the health benefits of recreational water activities by promoting healthy and safe swimming in your community. Healthy and Safe Swimming Week is also a great time to reach out to public pool operators, beach managers, the media, residential pool owners, and the general public to initiate action.
This year’s Healthy and Safe Swimming Week theme is “Make a Healthy Splash: Share the Fun, Not the Germs.” It focuses on a few easy and effective steps each of us can take to maximize the health benefits that we, our families, and our friends get from swimming.
To encourage and support your Healthy and Safe Swimming Week efforts, we have provided a health promotion tool kit, which includes community outreach suggestions; a web-based resource list; and a sample press release, op-ed piece, and proclamation. We hope you will find these resources useful as you engage your community in Healthy and Safe Swimming Week. Please forward this message and its attachments to your health communications, environmental health, and epidemiology colleagues so that they can collaborate with you in this important public health initiative.
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