Chronic Disease Day

Chronic Disease Day takes place each year on July 10th (7/10) to represent the seven out of ten individuals in the United States who succumb to chronic conditions such as all types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and other chronic and rare conditions.

Chronic Disease Day raises awareness on the challenges for individual access to care and promotes self-care best practices to reduce individual risk and lower national health care costs.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer from unpreventable and costly chronic and rare conditions. But the deadliest and costliest chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and obesity, are also the most preventable. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 25 percent of Americans have at least one chronic illness, and that number rises to 75 percent of adults aged 65 and older.

Access to vital medical care is financially prohibitive for most Americans. Chronic Disease Day improves public knowledge of the risks of chronic disease and raises awareness on everyone’s opportunities to extend their quality of life and lower overall health care costs through preventative well-being practices.