Outline of health

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

Health has a variety of definitions which have been used for different purposes over time and is a multidimensional concept. It commonly refers to physical and emotional well-being. Good health is associated with normal functioning of the human body in day to day life, 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

Reproductive health

Reproductive health

Poor health

Illness

Absence of health

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

Health maintenance

History of health

Health education

Health professionals

Medical schools and colleges

See also

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