Health Conditions

In 1948, the World Health Assembly defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations.

The WHO's constitution states that its objective "is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health." Its major task is to combat disease, especially key infectious diseases, and to promote the general health of the people of the world.

The Disabled World category of disability health conditions provides information on health and support for disabled people, including services, assessments, costs, and mental health, including male and female health issues and diseases.

Disabled World aims to provide information to support disability health promotion and wellness initiatives for people with disabilities around the world by providing information that covers a wide range of disabilities, from cancer to sleep disorders.

Our disability health area examines some of the inter-relationships among components of disability, health conditions and other related factors including delivering real improvements for disabled people as users and providers of health and social care services and the wider disabled community

We also explore the relationship between severity of disability, health conditions, personal, and environmental factors, and seek to enhance health professions education, and to improve access for people with disabilities to health, health education and health care services.

People's health is increasingly conceptualized in terms of their quality of life, what activities they can do, in what areas of life they are able to participate as they wish, and what long-term supports they need for living in the community.

Because of recent website expansion we are in the process of combining categories that were previously listed on our home page into the sub-categories related to health below.

A lot more information on various health topics can be found by clicking on the larger category headings. Some of our more popular informative articles are linked to under the main topics.

Disability Health Information

Arthritis Rheumatism

Disability Health Articles

Further Information Regarding Health Conditions

Tuberculosis Facts and Information
The disease tuberculosis is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can affect any part of the body but usually infects the lungs. Tuberculosis is spread through airborne droplets occurring when an infected individual sneezes, talks, or coughs. However, prolonged exposure to the infected individual must occur before you may become infected.

Listeriosis - Causes Symptoms and Prevention
Listeriosis has recently become recognized as an important public health issue in America. Listeriosis is a disease that primarily affects seniors, newborns, pregnant women, and adults who have weakened immune systems. On occasion, people who do not fall into these groups may also be affected by Listeriosis. There are some recommendations to follow that may reduce the risk of contacting this disease.

TMAU - Trimethylaminuria - Fishy Body Odor Causes and Treatment
Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) is a rare metabolic disorder also known as fish odor syndrome or fish malodor syndrome. Trimethylamine gets released in the person's sweat, urine, reproductive fluids, and breath, giving off a strong fishy or body odor.

Patients Being Discharged Against Medical Advice
When patients choose to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge, the consequences may involve risk of inadequately treated medical conditions and the need for readmission, according to a review in the March 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Chronic Disease Management - The Expert Patient
Why is becoming an Expert Patient so important? There is plenty of emerging research about the needs of 21st century patients. Most of that research centers around the concept of "Illness Self-Management", for what is called "chronic illness".

Take Charge of Your Own Health
In researching my own illness it occurred to me that I could offer a service that would weed through much of literature available and save doctors and consumers a lot of time by creating research publications that I could sell to the public and medical profession thus saving thousands of people from repeating the same steps. I received a lot of publicity and even sold some of my work to John's Hopkins University on the topics of Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer.