Healthy and Safe Swimming Week, May 21–27, 2018: outreach suggestions for community partners and the public

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• Alternative Title:
  Healthy and Safe Swimming Week 2018 toolkit
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.) ; National Center for Environmental Health, (U.S.) ; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  The week before Memorial Day, May 21–27, 2018, marks the 14th annual Healthy and Safe Swimming Week (HSSW). This is a great time to engage and collaborate with operators of public treated aquatic facilities, beach managers, the media, residential pool or hot tub/spa owners, and the public to maximize the health benefits of water-based physical activity by minimizing the risk of illness and injury.
  
  This year’s theme is “Swim Healthy. Stay Healthy.” CDC will issue a MMWR report in mid-May that reviews 15 years of data (2000–2014) on outbreaks associated with treated recreational water, particularly outbreaks caused by parasites such as Cryptosporidium and bacteria such as Legionella and Pseudomonas. Although we have made great strides in some areas, we can do more to help ensure healthy swimming for everyone. We’re encouraging the public to follow CDC’s steps of healthy swimming to stay healthy at pools, hot tubs/spas, and water playgrounds.
  
  2018-HSS-Toolkit-508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events Health Promotion Hygiene Recreation Safety Swimming Pools Swmming
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Healthy and Safe Swimming Week
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  9 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53790/cdc_53790_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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