Child Development, Health and Safety, Parenting
Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems that can have long-term impact on health, opportunity, and wellbeing. CDC works to understand the problems of child abuse and neglect and prevent them. Fast Facts: Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect What are...
Health and Safety, Parenting
Hearing Screening Hearing screening is a test to tell if people might have hearing loss. Hearing screening is easy and not painful. In fact, babies are often asleep while being screened. It takes a very short time — usually only a few minutes. CDC Report: Infants with...
Health and Safety, Parenting
Bicycle trips make up only 1% of all trips in the United States.1 However, bicyclists account for over 2% of people who die in a crash involving a motor vehicle on our nation’s roads.2-3 Note that bicycle refers to bicyclists and other cyclists including riders of...
Health and Safety, Parenting
Vaccines help prevent pneumococcal disease, which is any type of illness caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. There are two kinds of pneumococcal vaccines recommended in the United States: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs, specifically PCV15 and PCV20)...
