If you're like me, you feel as though it is nearly impossible to keep up with the national health awareness days and weeks that this country publicizes and promtoes. I work in public health and this week almost came and went before I knew it was actually National Public Health Week! I have since read up on this annual awareness week and it is a good one to mark down on your future calendars. This year's theme, "One Community at a Time" really drives home the fact that we can make the difference individually to improve national health by starting with ourselves, then our families and then our communities. I love this theme because it promotes the ripple effect concept very well. Do you have a good story of how you have promoted good health in your community? Share it on the NPHW website because they want to hear from you. They also list events happening all over the country - possibly in your local community - that are going on to improve public health. The NPHW was developed by the American Public Health Association, which is an organization formed back in 1872 to "protect all Americans, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States."