Health science
Health science is the applied science dealing with health, and it includes many sub disciplines. See also health science academic disciplines. There are two approaches to health science: the study and research of the human body and health-related issues to understand how humans (and animals) function, and the application of that knowledge to improve health and to prevent and cure diseases. Health research builds upon the basic sciences of biology, chemistry, and physics as well as a variety of multidisciplinary fields (for example medical sociology). Some of the other primarily research-oriented fields that make exceptionally significant contributions to health science are alternative health, biochemistry, epidemiology, and genetics, natural health. See also life sciences and life science academic disciplines. Applied health sciences also endeavor to better understand health, but in addition they try to directly improve the health of individuals and of people in general.
