The 2024 April Health Calendar of major health awareness days is here!
Here are some ideas for health and wellness this month.
You can download the entire year in a format you can have up at your desk as well as a plain text version here.
- All April
Austism Acceptance Month
April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. It’s also the start of Autism Awareness Month in Australia. - 1 April
Be Alarmed – change your smoke alarm battery
Every year on April 1, April Fools’ Day DFES promotes the day as a reminder to regularly change smoke alarm batteries at this time each year using a high-quality, long-life battery. - 2 April
World Autism Day
Encourages awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder throughout the world.
- 7 April
World Health Day
The World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization. Consider putting health news and information in front of your workforce regularly with an ongoing health, safety and wellbeing newsletter. - 11 April
World Parkinson’s Day
Aims to raise awareness of the condition and change attitudes. - 15-21 April
World Creativity and Innovation Week
Aims to remind and encourage people to use their creativity to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too. - 17 April
World Haemophilia Day
Recognised worldwide to increase awareness of haemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders. This year, the theme is “Equitable access for all: recognizing all bleeding disorders.” - 22 April
International Mother Earth Day
Celebrated to remind each of us that the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with life and sustenance. This Day also recognizes a collective responsibility to promote harmony with nature and the Earth to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations of humanity. - 24-30 April
World Immunisation Week
World Immunisation Week aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. The theme for 2023 was #The Big Catch-up. - 28 April
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
This is a day for promoting safety and health in the workplace and to honour those who have died from work-related injury or illness.
Checks, consults, seminars, workshops, newsletters and more can all be used to promote your health and safety message. - 28 April
Pay It Forward Day
A global initiative that exists to make a difference by creating a huge ripple of kindness felt across the world. - 29 April – 3 May
Patient Experience Week
An annual event to celebrate healthcare staff impacting patient experience everyday. - 29 April-5 May
National Heart Week
Heart Week is an opportunity for health professionals and the Australian public to start a conversation about heart health and the steps needed to reduce the risk of heart disease.
This is a great opportunity to promote heart health in your workplace with our onsite heart health checks, our booklets and our seminars.
