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Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. This article lists major topics related to personal health.
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Abortion – Accident – Activities of daily living – Acupuncture – Adolescent medicine – Adult daycare center – Advance health care directive – Aerobic exercise – Age-adjusted life expectancy – Ageless – Aging and memory – Aging – Alcoholism – Allergy – Alternative medicine – Amputation – Anaerobic exercise – Anaesthesia – Anatomical pathology – Anatomical terms of motion - Anatomy – Andrology – Animal-assisted therapy – Antibiotic resistance – Appetite – Assisted reproductive technology – Athletic training – Audiology – Autoimmune disease – Auxology
Bacterium – Baldness – Basic life support – Binge eating – Biochemical pathology – Biological standard of living – Biomedical research – Biomedical technology – Bipolar disorder – Birth attendant – Birth control – Blood diseases – Blood test – Body composition – Body mass index – Body shaping – Body treatment – Brain death
Cancer – Cell replacement therapy – Chemotherapy – Child birth – Chinese medicine – Chiropractic – Clinical death – Cognitive enhancement – Cognitive therapy – Collaborative therapy – Community-based rehabilitation – Community health – Complementary and alternative medicine – Complementary medicine – Convalescence – Cryosurgery
Death – Deficiency disease – Dental hygiene – Dentistry – Dermatology – Determinants of health – Detoxification – Developmental disability – Diabetes – Diagnosis – Diet (nutrition) – Diet and obesity – Dietary fiber – Dietary mineral – Dietary supplement – Dietetics – Dieting – Digestion – Digestive system – Digestive tract – Disability – Disease registry – Disease – Doctor-patient relationship – Dysarthria – Dyslexia - Diphtheria
Ecological health – Energy medicine – Environmental health – Enzyme – Epidemic – Ethnicity and health – Evidence-based medicine – Evidence-based practice – Evolutionary medicine – Eugenics – Exercise equipment – Exercise physiology – Exercise
Fad diet – Faith healing – Family-centered care – Family planning – Famine – Fast food – Female infertility – Fertility – Fetal alcohol syndrome – Folk medicine – Food additive – Food allergy – Food and cooking hygiene – Food groups – Food pyramid (nutrition) – Food quality – Food science – Food supplements – Food technology – Food – Forensic pathology – Free clinic – Functional diversity (disability)
Gene therapy – General fitness training – General surgery – Genetic counseling – Genetic engineering – Genetically modified organism – Genetics – Genital integrity – Genitourinary medicine – Genome project – Genome – Genomics – Geriatric sexology – Geriatrics – Gerontology – Global Health – Gynaecology
Haematology – Hand surgery – Healer (alternative medicine) – Healing – Health applications and clinical studies of meditation – Health care delivery – Health care industry – Health care system – Health care – Health claims on food labels – Health disparities – Health economics – Health education – Health geography – Health information on Wikipedia – Health literacy – Health observatory – Health profession – Health promotion – Health science – Health – Healthcare inequality – Healthcare – Healthy diet – Healthy eating – History of medicine – Holistic health – Home birth – Home remedy – Homeopathy – Homeostasis – Hormone – Hospice – Hospital accreditation – Hospital – Human anatomy – Human cloning – Human enhancement – Hygiene
Illness – Illnesses related to poor nutrition – Immortality – Immunity (medical) – Immunology – Infectious diseases – Infertility – Inflammation – Injury – Internal medicine
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Macronutrient – Male infertility – Malnutrition – Manipulative therapy – Manual therapy – Maternal health – Maximum life span – Medical cannabis – Medical case management – Medical devices – Medical herbalism – Medical history – Medical imaging – Medical model – Medical physics – Medical privacy – Medical school – Medical sociology – Medical technology – Medical tourism – Medication – Medicine – Meditation – Megadose – Megavitamin therapy – Men's health – Mental disorder – Mental health – Mental hygiene – Mental retardation – Metabolism – Meteoropathy – Microbiology – Micronutrient – Midwifery – Mind-body intervention – Miscarriage – Mortality rate – Multivitamin – Mutation
Nanomedicine – Nanotechnology – Natalism – Naturopathic medicine – Neonatal infection – Neuroimmunology – Neurology – Neuroscience – Neurosurgery – Noise health effects – Non-infectious disease – Nuclear medicine – Nurse – Nursing school – Nursing – Nutrient density – Nutrient – Nutrigenomics – Nutrition and pregnancy – Nutrition – Nutritional supplement – Nutritionist
Obesity – Obstetrics and gynaecology – Obstetrics – Occupational hygiene – Occupational medicine – Occupational safety and health – Occupational therapy – Old age – Oncology – Online pharmacy – Ophthalmology – Optometry – Oral hygiene – Organ transplant – Organic food – Organism – Orthopaedics – Osteopathy – Over-the-counter drug – Overweight
Palliative care – Paramedic – Pathogen – Pathology – Pediatrics – Perioperative medicine – Pharmaceutical care – Pharmaceutical policy – Pharmaceutical sciences – Pharmacology – Pharmacy – Physical education – Physical examination – Physical exercise – Physical fitness – Physical therapy – Physician – Plastic surgery – Population health – Positive mental attitude – Posture and occupational health – Pre-conception counseling – Pregnancy – Pregnant patients' rights – Prenatal care – Prescription drugs – Preventive medicine – Primary care – Primary health care – Psychiatry – Psychoanalysis – Psychoeducation – Psychoneuroimmunology – Psychotherapy – Public health
Radiology – Rare disease – Rejuvenation (aging) – Reproductive endocrinology and infertility – Reproductive health – Reproductive medicine – Right to Health – Rheumatology – Rural health – Rural health clinic
STD testing – Safe sex – Sanitation – Saturated fat – Self care – Self-healing – Self-medication – Senility – Sex and illness – Sex education – Sexual dysfunction – Sexual health clinic – Sexual health – Sexuality and disability – Sexuality education – Sleep deprivation – Sleep hygiene – Sleep – Smoking cessation – Social determinants of health – Social medicine – Special needs – Sports medicine – Sports nutrition – Stem cell treatments – Stress (medicine) – Stress management – Supported living – Surgery – Survivability – Symptom
Therapy dog – Toxicity – Toxicology – Toxin – Traditional Chinese medicine – Traditional Korean medicine – Traditional medicine – Trans fat – Trauma surgery - Tetanus
Vaccine – Vegetarianism – Virus – Vitamin – Vulvovaginal health
Weight loss – Wellness (alternative medicine) – Wellness – Witch-doctor – Women's health – Workplace health surveillance – Workplace wellness – World Health Organization - Whooping Cough
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences:
Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is a healthcare profession, as well as the care provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through physical examination, diagnosis, management, prognosis, patient education, physical intervention, rehabilitation, disease prevention, and health promotion. Physical therapist is the term used for such professionals in the United States, and physiotherapist is the term used in many other countries.
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Some factors affecting health are due to individual choices, such as whether to engage in a high-risk behavior, while others are due to structural causes, such as whether the society is arranged in a way that makes it easier or harder for people to get necessary healthcare services. Still, other factors are beyond both individual and group choices, such as genetic disorders.
Activities of daily living (ADLs) is a term used in healthcare to refer to people's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measurement of their functional status. The concept of ADLs was originally proposed in the 1950s by Sidney Katz and his team at the Benjamin Rose Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then, a number of researchers have expanded on the concept of ADLs. For example, many indexes that assess ADLs now include some measure of mobility.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to academic disciplines:
Orthomolecular medicine is a form of alternative medicine that aims to maintain human health through nutritional supplementation. The concept builds on the idea of an optimal nutritional environment in the body and suggests that diseases reflect deficiencies in this environment. Treatment for disease, according to this view, involves attempts to correct "imbalances or deficiencies based on individual biochemistry" by use of substances such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements and fatty acids. The notions behind orthomolecular medicine are not supported by sound medical evidence, and the therapy is not effective for chronic disease prevention; even the validity of calling the orthomolecular approach a form of medicine has been questioned since the 1970s.
Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat, or lean mass. Weight loss can either occur unintentionally because of malnourishment or an underlying disease, or from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state. "Unexplained" weight loss that is not caused by reduction in calorific intake or increase in exercise is called cachexia and may be a symptom of a serious medical condition.
Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique health needs of the elderly. The term geriatrics originates from the Greek γέρων geron meaning "old man", and ιατρός iatros meaning "healer". It aims to promote health by preventing, diagnosing and treating disease in older adults. There is no defined age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician, or geriatric physician, a physician who specializes in the care of older people. Rather, this decision is guided by individual patient need and the caregiving structures available to them. This care may benefit those who are managing multiple chronic conditions or experiencing significant age-related complications that threaten quality of daily life. Geriatric care may be indicated if caregiving responsibilities become increasingly stressful or medically complex for family and caregivers to manage independently.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health:
A caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living. Caregivers who are members of a care recipient's family or social network, and who may have no specific professional training, are often described as informal caregivers. Caregivers most commonly assist with impairments related to old age, disability, a disease, or a mental disorder.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, also known by its abbreviation MoHFW, is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India.
Class R:Medicine is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system. This page outlines the subclasses of Class R.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to medicine:
Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a branch of medicine focused on preventive healthcare and self-care dealing with prevention, research, education, and treatment of disorders caused by lifestyle factors and preventable causes of death such as nutrition, physical inactivity, chronic stress, and self-destructive behaviors including the consumption of tobacco products and drug or alcohol abuse. The goal of LM is to improve individuals' health and wellbeing by applying the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine (nutrition, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connection) to prevent chronic conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity. By focusing on these 6 areas to improve health, LM can prevent 80% of chronic illnesses and non-communicable diseases (NCD).
Allied Academies is a reportedly fraudulent corporation chartered under the laws of North Carolina. Its postal address is in London, United Kingdom. It presents itself as an association of scholars, with supporting and encouraging research and the sharing and exchange of knowledge as its stated aims. The organization consists of 30 affiliate academies, which provide awards to academics and publish academic journals both online and in hard copy for members. Since 2015 the organization has been listed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers". It is in a partnership with OMICS Publishing Group which uses its website and logo. In 2018, OMICS owner Srinubabu Gedela declared that he had informed the Nevada court that Allied Academies was a subsidiary of OMICS International. During a conference in 2018, they falsely listed a prominent chemist among its organizing committee who had not agreed to this and was not affiliated with Allied Academies.
Orthopathy or natural hygiene (NH) is a set of alternative medical beliefs and practices originating from the Nature Cure movement. Proponents claim that fasting, dieting, and other lifestyle measures are all that is necessary to prevent and treat disease.
A non-pharmaceutical intervention or non-pharmacological intervention (NPI) is any type of health intervention which is not primarily based on medication. Some examples include exercise, sleep improvement, or dietary habits.
Herald Scholarly Open Access is a publisher of various academic journals. It has a postal address in Herndon, Virginia, United States, but is actually based in Hyderabad, India. Herald Scholarly Open Access has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers, and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.
JSci Med Central is a publisher of various academic journals from Hyderabad, India. JSciMed Central has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers, and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.