Nursing Care & Chronic Disease

It’s October, and you know what that means, it’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

September is International Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and cities around the world are lighting up landmarks blue to raise awareness.

National Stroke Week, from 7 to 13 August, is a Stroke Foundation campaign to encourage the community to ‘fight stroke together’.  

World Hepatitis Day is celebrated on 28 July. In Australia, World Hepatitis Day is coordinated by the national peak body Hepatitis Australia, to raise awareness and promote action on viral hepatitis.  

National Pain Week is an annual awareness campaign coordinated by Chronic Pain Australia to draw attention to the plight of people suffering from chronic pain with the strategic intent to ensure that all Australians living with it receive the ‘Triple AAA’ standards of care – Awareness, Accessibility and Affordability. 

This National Diabetes Week, from 9 to 15 July, will celebrate the theme ‘Raise your voice. Drive change.’ 

June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Each year, Bowel Cancer Australia puts on its signature month-long event to raise awareness of Australia's second deadliest cancer and funds for prevention, early diagnosis, research, quality treatment and care.

May is Macula Month! Designed to raise awareness of the degenerative eye disease, Macula Month encourages those most at risk (people aged 50+) to go for an eye exam and check their macula health. 

May is definitively food awareness and dietary health month. May is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Month and also celebrates Food Allergy Week from May 21 to 27 and World IBD Day on May 19.  

April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Not as many people are as familiar with Parkinson’s disease (PD) as they are with, perhaps, heart disease. But it is believed that worldwide, more than 8.5 million people have Parkinson’s, including many who may not yet realise they have it.