Health topics

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A researcher dissects a mosquito under the microscope at the Malaria Research Centre in Khanh Vinh district

The following health topics list is maintained and hosted by WHO Western Pacific.

A

Adolescent health

Ageing and health

Air pollution

Alcohol

Antimicrobial resistance
B

Breastfeeding
C

Cancer

Cardiovascular diseases (heart attack, stroke)

Cervical cancer

Chemical safety

Child health

Chronic respiratory diseases (asthma, COPD)

Climate change
D

Deafness and hearing loss

Dementia

Dengue and severe dengue

Diabetes

Diarrhoea

Digital health

Diphtheria

Disability

Disasters (health impact)

Drowning
E

Echinococcosis

Essential medicines

Ethics

Eye health, vision impairment and blindness
F

Food safety
G

Gender and health
H

Health data and health information systems

Health equity

Health financing

Health governance

Health promotion

Health research

Health workforce

Healthy diet

Healthy settings

Hepatitis

HIV/AIDS

Hospitals

Human rights

Hypertension
I

Infant and young child feeding

Influenza (avian and other zoonotic)

Influenza (seasonal)

Injuries

Intestinal Worms (soil-transmitted helminthiases)
L

Law for health

Leishmaniasis

Leprosy

Lymphatic filariasis
M

Malaria

Malnutrition

Maternal health

Measles and rubella

Meningitis

Mental health
N

Newborn health

Noncommunicable diseases

Nursing and midwifery

Nutrition
O

Obesity

Occupational health

Oral health
P

Patient safety

Pertussis (whooping cough)

Physical activity

Pneumonia

Poliomyelitis (polio)

Primary health care
R

Rehabilitation

Reproductive health

Road safety
S

Scabies

Schistosomiasis

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

Suicide prevention
T

Tapeworm (Taeniasis and cysticercosis)

Tetanus

Tobacco

Trachoma

Traditional medicine

Tuberculosis
U

Urban health (healthy cities)
V

Vaccines and immunization

Violence
W

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
Y

Yaws (Endemic treponematoses)
Z

Zika