Biology:Outline of health
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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to health
The following outline 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
- 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
- Survivability of the individual
- Wellness
Reproductive health
Reproductive health
- Reproductive rights
- Men's health
- Women's health
- Vulvovaginal health
- Maternal health
- Breastfeeding
- Family planning
- Fertility
- Infertility
- Birth control
- Sex education
- Safer sex
- Disorders
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Sexual dysfunction
- Reproductive medicine
Poor health
Illness
- Disability
- Disease
- Injury
- Muscle weakness
- 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
- Exercise
- General Fitness Training
- Healthy diet
- Hygiene
- Life extension
- Self-medication
- Nootropics
- Nutrients
- Nutrition
- Positive mental attitude
- Sleep hygiene
- Stress management
- Smoking cessation (Quitting smoking)
- Vitamins
- Weight loss
Health maintenance of the masses
Health care industry
Health care industry
Public health
Public health
- Health observatory
- World Health Organization
- Global health
Health science
Health science
History of health
- Establishment of the World Health Organization
- History of the health care industry
- History of medicine
- History of public health
- Life expectancy over human history
- History of HIV
- History of pharmaceutical industry
- History of health care reform
- History of cancer
- History of environmental health
- History of genetics
- History of toxicology
- History of occupational health
- History of anthrax
- History of drug resistance
- History of antiretroviral therapy
- History of avian influenza
- History of cholera
Health education
Medical education
- Nursing school
- Medical school
- List of medical schools
- School of public health
- Dental school
- Pharmacy school
Health professionals
- List of clinical psychologists
- List of dentists
- List of dermatologists
- List of fictional medical examiners
- List of immunologists
- List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Medical genetics, hematology, and oncology)
- List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Medical physiology and metabolism)
- 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
- List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- List of nurses
- List of pathologists
- List of people in alternative medicine
- List of pharmacists
- List of physicians
- List of psychiatrists
- List of psychologists
- List of psychologists on postage stamps
Medical schools and colleges
General
- List of medical schools
- 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
- 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
- List of medical schools in Syria
- List of dental schools in the United Kingdom
- List of medical schools in the United Kingdom
- List of historical medical schools in the United Kingdom
- List of pharmacy schools in the United Kingdom
- 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
External links
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
- National Center for Health Statistics (USA)
- National Institute of Health (USA)
- National Library of Medicine Pubmed Journal Search
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work EU-OSHA
- The Public Health Portal of the European Union
- World Health Organization
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