HEALTH TOPICS A TO Z

Alphabetical Index

Abortion: induced abortion does not increase breast cancer risk
African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
AIDS: HIV/AIDS Glossary
AIDS: HIV/AIDS among American Indians and Alaska Natives
AIDS: HIV/AIDS among Asians and Pacific Islanders
AIDS: HIV/AIDS and African Americans
Air pollution, indoor: Indoor air pollution and health
Air quality guidelines: a global update on protecting public health
Anthrax
Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobials: use outside human medicine and resultant antimicrobial resistance in humans
Arsenic in drinking water
Asthma
Avian influenza (" bird flu") - Fact sheet
Blindness: magnitude and causes of visual impairment
Blood safety and donation
Bottled drinking water
Botulism
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Buruli ulcer disease
Campylobacter
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Chernobyl accident: an overview of the health effects
Cholera
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Civil registration: why counting births and deaths is important
Climate and health
Condoms: effectiveness of latex condoms
Contraception: Emergency contraception
Counterfeit medicines
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Deafness and hearing impairment
Death: Top 10 causes
Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever
Depleted uranium
Diabetes
Dioxins and their effects on human health
Diphtheria
Ebola haemorrhagic fever
El Nino and its health impact
Electromagnetic fields and public health: base stations and wireless technologies
Electromagnetic fields and public health: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Electromagnetic fields and public health: exposure to extremely low frequency fields
Electromagnetic fields and public health: extremely low frequency
Electromagnetic fields and public health: extremely low frequency fields and cancer
Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile telephones and their base stations
Electromagnetic fields and public health: static electric and magnetic fields
Emergency and humanitarian action
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)
Enteroviruses - non polio
Environmental health: The environment and health for children and their mothers
Epilepsy: aetiogy, epidemiology and prognosis
Epilepsy: historical overview
Epilepsy: scientific and medical advances
Epilepsy: social consequences and economic aspects
Essential Medicines List (EML)
Facts about health in the African Region of WHO
Female genital mutilation
Fires, vegetation
Food safety and foodborne illness
Foodborne diseases, emerging
Haemoglobin disorders: sickle-cell disease and others
Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB)
Headache disorders
Health expenditure: A global overview
Health of indigenous peoples
Health services financing
Health workers: migration
Health workers: the global shortage of and its impact
Healthy environments for children
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis E
Immunization against diseases of public health importance
Influenza
Injection safety
Integrating prevention into health care
Lassa fever
Legionellosis
Leprosy
Lymphatic filariasis
Malaria
Marburg haemorrhagic fever
Measles
Medicines safety
Medicines: the WHO prequalification project
Meningococcal meningitis
Mental health problems: the undefined and hidden burden
Mental health: strengthening mental health promotion
Microbicides: women and microbicides
Millennium Development Goals: WHO and the Millennium Development Goals
Nipah virus
Noncommunicable diseases: Surveillance of noncommunicable disease risk factors
Obesity and overweight
Obstetric care
Occupational and community noise
Oral health
Plague
Poliomyelitis
Rabies
Radon and cancer
Rift Valley fever
Salmonella: Drug-Resistant Salmonella
Schistosomiasis
Sexually transmitted infections
Ship sanitation and health
Silicosis
Smallpox
Sunbeds, tanning and UV exposure
The right to health
Traditional medicine
Tuberculosis
Ultraviolet radiation: global disease burden from solar UV
Ultraviolet radiation: global solar UV index
Ultraviolet radiation: Protecting children from ultraviolet radiation
Ultraviolet radiation: solar radiation and human health
Vaccines: Development of new vaccines
Vaccines: quality and safety from development to delivery
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Violence against women
Waste: Health-care waste management
Wastes from health-care activities
Women and mental health
Women and sexually transmitted infections
Women, ageing and health
Yaws: A forgotten disease
Yellow fever

Sources: US Department of Health; The World Health Organization