Awareness saves lives

Why health awareness matters

Raising health awareness gives people the knowledge, skills and information to make healthy choices, to take better control of their own health and wellbeing, and to adopt healthier lifestyles.

Knowing a disease and its symptoms also makes people far more likely to act early — to go for the check-ups, tests and screenings that catch a problem while it is still treatable. That is why awareness matters so much for prevention, early detection and targeted therapy, and why it matters most of all with cancer.

Knowledge is the power in healthcare awareness. The strongest tool we have against these conditions is human connection: talking to people, and carrying the message to them.

— Mohammad Masood Athar, MD, MPH

A community health education session, with a woman in a headscarf taking notes

What screening actually prevents

33,000 lives a year

Would be saved each year if men and women began colorectal screening at age 45.

12,000 deaths

33,000 lives a year

Prevented every year across the country by mammograms.

Down more than 50%

33,000 lives a year

Down more than 50%

The fall in the cervical cancer death rate over the last 30 years, driven by screening.

1 in 3 US adults

100,000 lives a year

Down more than 50%

Have high blood pressure — and only 1 in 4 of them have it under control.

11.3% of the US

100,000 lives a year

Has diabetes, and 23% of adults who have it have never been diagnosed.

100,000 lives a year

What timely screening, matched to your age and sex, could save every year.

Awareness saves lives

Why health awareness matters

What screening actually prevents

33,000 lives a year

33,000 lives a year

33,000 lives a year

12,000 deaths

33,000 lives a year

33,000 lives a year

Down more than 50%

33,000 lives a year

Down more than 50%

1 in 3 US adults

100,000 lives a year

Down more than 50%

11.3% of the US

100,000 lives a year

100,000 lives a year

100,000 lives a year

100,000 lives a year

100,000 lives a year

Awareness guides to download

Vaccination Saves Lives

Awareness Saves Lives

In Pursuit of Wellness

Lifestyle & Lifestyle Modifications