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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health: Health – functional and metabolic efficiency of an organism. It is the ability to live long, function well (physically and mentally), and prosper.


Essence of personal health

* Homeostasis – property of a system in which variables are regulated so that internal conditions remain stable and relatively constant. Examples of homeostasis include the regulation of temperature and the balance between acidity and alkalinity (pH). *
Immunity Immunity may refer to: Medicine * Immunity (medical), resistance of an organism to infection or disease * ''Immunity'' (journal), a scientific journal published by Cell Press Biology * Immune system Engineering * Radiofrequence immunity desc ...
* Life – characteristic distinguishing physical entities having biological processes (such as signaling and self-sustaining processes) from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate. * Mental health *
Physical fitness Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of Outline of sports, sports, occupations and daily activities. Physical fitness is generally achieved through proper nutrition, moderate ...
* Survivability of the individual * Wellness


Reproductive health

Reproductive health * Reproductive rights * Men's health * Women's health **
Vulvovaginal health In mammals, the vagina is the elastic, muscular part of the female genital tract. In humans, it extends from the vestibule to the cervix. The outer vaginal opening is normally partly covered by a thin layer of mucosal tissue called the hyme ...
** Maternal health ** Breastfeeding *
Family planning Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marita ...
** Fertility **
Infertility Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means. It is usually not the natural state of a healthy adult, except notably among certain eusocial species (mostly haplodiploid insects). It is the normal state ...
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Birth control Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth contr ...
* Sex education * Safer sex * Disorders ** Sexually transmitted disease ** Sexual dysfunction * Reproductive medicine ** Andrology **
Gynaecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...
** Obstetrics and gynaecology


Poor health

Illness * Disability * Disease *
Injury An injury is any physiological damage to living tissue caused by immediate physical stress. An injury can occur intentionally or unintentionally and may be caused by blunt trauma, penetrating trauma, burning, toxic exposure, asphyxiation, o ...
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Muscle weakness Muscle weakness is a lack of muscle strength. Its causes are many and can be divided into conditions that have either true or perceived muscle weakness. True muscle weakness is a primary symptom of a variety of skeletal muscle diseases, includi ...
* Mental disorder * Susceptibility to the above


Absence of health

* Death – termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.


Health maintenance


Personal health maintenance

Self-care *
Exercise Exercise is a body activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. It is performed for various reasons, to aid growth and improve strength, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, hone athletic ...
* General Fitness Training * *
Healthy diet A healthy diet is a diet that maintains or improves overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, macronutrients such as protein, micronutrients such as vitamins, and adequate fibre and food energy. A healthy ...
* Hygiene *
Life extension Life extension is the concept of extending the human life expectancy, lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled oldest people, limit of 125 years. S ...
* Self-medication * Nootropics *
Nutrient A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce. The requirement for dietary nutrient intake applies to animals, plants, fungi, and protists. Nutrients can be incorporated into cells for metabolic purposes or excret ...
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Positive mental attitude Positive mental attitude (PMA) is a concept first introduced in 1937 by Napoleon Hill in the book ''Think and Grow Rich''. The book never actually uses the term, but discusses about the importance of positive thinking as a contributing factor of s ...
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Sleep hygiene Sleep hygiene is a behavioral and environmental practice developed in the late 1970s as a method to help people with mild to moderate insomnia. Clinicians assess the sleep hygiene of people with insomnia and other conditions, such as depression, ...
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Stress management Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of and for the motive of improving everyday functioning. Stress produces num ...
* Smoking cessation (Quitting smoking) * Vitamins * Weight loss


Health maintenance of the masses

Health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...


Health care industry

Health care industry The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, a ...


Public health

Public health * Health observatory * World Health Organization * :Health ministries * Global health


Health science

Health science The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences: Health sciences are those sciences which focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple acad ...
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10/90 gap The 10/90 gap is the term adopted by the Global Forum for Health Research to highlight the finding by the Commission on Health Research for Development in 1990, that less than 10% of worldwide resources devoted to health research were put towards he ...
* Disease * Medicine * Sleep * Stress


History of health

* Establishment of the World Health Organization * History of the health care industry * History of medicine *
History of public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...
* Life expectancy over human history * History of HIV * History of pharmaceutical industry * History of health care reform *
History of cancer The history of cancer describes the development of the field of oncology and its role in the history of medicine. Early diagnosis The earliest known descriptions of cancer appear in several papyri from Ancient Egypt. The Edwin Smith Papyrus was ...
* History of environmental health * History of genetics *
History of toxicology Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating ex ...
* History of occupational health * History of anthrax * History of drug resistance * History of antiretroviral therapy *
History of avian influenza History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as we ...
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History of cholera Seven cholera pandemics have occurred in the past 200 years, with the first pandemic originating in India in 1817. The seventh cholera pandemic is officially a current pandemic and has been ongoing since 1961, according to a World Health Organizat ...


Health education


Medical education

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Nursing school Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health ca ...
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Medical school A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...
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List of medical schools Medical schools are developed, monitored and credentialed by national organizations in each country. The agency responsible for this recognition in most countries is the Ministry of Health. Medical schools that are recognized by the appropriate a ...
* School of public health * Dental school * Pharmacy school


Health professionals

* List of clinical psychologists *
List of dentists This is a list of dentists who have gained a degree of notability, particularly with regard to the history of those in the field. Real-life dentists A * Sam Aanestad – former Californian politician *Harold Albrecht – Conservative Party of ...
* List of dermatologists * List of fictional medical examiners *
List of immunologists This is a ''list of notable immunologists.'' Pioneers *Edward Jenner (1749-1823), discovered that cowpox induces protection against smallpox * Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), his experiments confirmed the germ theory of disease, he also created the fi ...
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List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Medical genetics, hematology, and oncology) Medical genetics, hematology, and oncology

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List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Medical physiology and metabolism) Medical physiology and metabolism

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* List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Physiology and pharmacology) * List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Psychology) *
List of neurologists This is a list of neurologists and neurosurgeons, with their year of birth and death and nationality. This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a refle ...
* List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine * List of nurses * List of pathologists * List of people in alternative medicine *
List of pharmacists This is a list of notable pharmacists, sorted by particular fields in which they distinguished themselves: Pharmacy practice *Dora Akunyili (1954-2010), Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of Nigeria ...
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List of physicians This is a list of famous physicians in history. Chronological lists Ancient physicians 30th century BCE to 4th century CE * List of ancient physicians Post-classical physicians 5th century CE to 15th century CE * List of post-classical ph ...
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List of psychiatrists This list is of notable psychiatrists. Additional lists of psychiatrists can be found at the articles List of figures in psychiatry (though not all individuals at that list are psychiatrists and medical doctors), List of fictional psychiatrists, F ...
* List of psychologists **
List of psychologists on postage stamps The following is a list of psychologists and contributors to the field of psychology who have been commemorated on worldwide postage stamps. It is adapted from two philatelic listings published by psychologists Dr. Gary Brucato and Dr. John D. H ...


Medical schools and colleges


General

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List of medical schools Medical schools are developed, monitored and credentialed by national organizations in each country. The agency responsible for this recognition in most countries is the Ministry of Health. Medical schools that are recognized by the appropriate a ...
* List of optometry schools * List of osteopathic colleges * List of pharmacy schools * List of Seventh-day Adventist medical schools


Country specific

* List of dental schools in Australia * List of medical schools in Australia * List of medical colleges in Bangladesh *
List of medical schools in Canada This list of medical schools in Canada includes major academic institutions that award the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree, which is required to become a physician or a surgeon in Canada. M.D. granting medical schools are jointly accredited by ...
* List of medical schools in Egypt * List of medical colleges in India * List of colleges of nursing in the Philippines *
List of medical colleges in Rajasthan India's medical schools are usually called medical colleges. Medical school quality is controlled by the central regulatory authority, the National Medical Commission, which inspects the institutes from time to time and recognizes institutes fo ...
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List of medical schools in Syria This is a list of medical schools located in Syria. References

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* List of dental schools in the United Kingdom *
List of medical schools in the United Kingdom There are thirty-four medical schools in the United Kingdom that are recognised by the General Medical Council and where students can study for a medical degree. There are twenty-five such schools in England, five in Scotland, two in Wales and t ...
** List of historical medical schools in the United Kingdom *
List of pharmacy schools in the United Kingdom This list of schools of pharmacy in the United Kingdom includes all thirty GPhC or PSNI registered MPharm degree-issuing schools of pharmacy in the United Kingdom. There are twenty-six such schools in England, two in Scotland, one in Wales and t ...
* List of dental schools in the United States * List of medical schools in the United States ** List of medical specialty colleges in the United States


See also

* Human enhancement * Quality of life


External links


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