Outline of health sciences
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences:
Health sciences – those sciences that focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple academic disciplines, including STEM disciplines and emerging patient safety disciplines (such as social care research).
focuses on preventing and curing hearing damage.
Audiology
is the branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.
Dentistry
(often called Family Medicine) is a branch of medicine that specializes in primary care.
General Practice
is the branch of medicine that deals with the general health and well-being of the elderly.
Geriatrics
is a branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and management of infectious disease, especially for complex cases and immunocompromised patients.
Infectious disease
is the scientific study of human or non-human body movement.
Kinesiology
deals with diagnostic laboratory examinations and tests and their interpretation what makes in a medical laboratory.
Laboratory medicine
is the branch of medicine and science that deals with applications of physics concepts, theories, and methods to medicine or health care.
Medical physics
is the study of diseases, and the causes, processes, nature, and development of the disease.
Pathology
is the art and practice of preparing, preserving, compounding, and dispensing medical drugs
Pharmacy
is study and practical application of preparation, use, and effects of drugs and synthetic medicines.
Pharmacology
is the branch of medicine concerned with the health of populations.
Public health and preventive medicine
is a health discipline concerned with the biopsychosocial study of the mind, brain, behavior and the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychological disorders.
Clinical psychology
deals with visceral organs.
Splanchnology
is the branch of medicine that uses operative techniques to investigate or treat both disease and injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.
Surgery
is the branch of medicine that deals with the urinary system and the male reproductive system.
Urology
is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in nonhuman/animals.
Veterinary medicine
Medicine is an applied science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Below are some of the branches of medicine.
History of medicine
Disease
Healing
Health
Doctor
Dentist
Hospital
Nurse
Medication
Operation
Physical examination
Auscultation
Medical history
Medical imaging