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T h e N a t i o n s H e a l t h J u n e / J u l y 2 0 0 8 24 A Peace Day was held in Sherman Oaks, Calif., as part of the Anti-
Violence Campaign of the International Health and Epidemiology
Research Center. Kids were encouraged to turn in their toy guns. wore bright red T-shirts
emblazoned with the Asso-
ciation of Schools of Public
Health slogan, This is
Public Health, an outreach
effort sponsored by the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of
Public Health. The countys Health Action Partnership hosted
the first Health Action
Summit during the week,
an event featuring talks on
climate change and culmi-
nating with the release of
Our Community Roadmap
to Health, which is avail-
able at www.jcdh.org. In Arizona, the Kayenta Public Health Nursing Pro-
gram in Kayenta, Ariz., linked with several pro-
grams that are part of the
Navajo Nation Division of
Health to hold community
events throughout National
Public Health Week. The
week began with a trash
pickup, where more than
two truckloads of garbage
were cleaned from clinic
grounds. Staff members
planned two Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle fairs held at
local chapter houses that
featured
exhibits
demon-
strating
creative
recycling
sugges-
tions.
Some of
those
included
sewing
handbags,
potholders
and laun-
dry bags
from used denim jeans,
weaving with yarn from
recycled sweaters, making
tablecloths from cloth flour
bags, crafting pi

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