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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health:

Contents

• Essence of personal health
• Reproductive health
• Poor health
• Absence of health
• Health maintenance
• Personal health maintenance
• Health maintenance of the masses
• History of health
• Health education
• Medical education
• Health professionals
• Medical schools and colleges
• General
• Country specific
• See also
• External links

Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being , especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body , absent of disease , pain (including mental pain ), or injury .

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

Health maintenance

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

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

See also

• Human enhancement
• Quality of life

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