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| This category examines psycho-social-environmental addictions as well as substance abuse related addictions. If your site is more related to a mental health disorder please submit to the appropriate subcategory within Health/Mental Health. |
As defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 4th edition 1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time. 2. Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality.This section focuses on topics related to human or animal health, and medicine.
Environmental health topics may be found at Science/Environment/Environmental_Health .
Other related categories include: Business/Healthcare
Shopping/Health
and Society/Issues/Health
| This category examines psycho-social-environmental addictions as well as substance abuse related addictions. If your site is more related to a mental health disorder please submit to the appropriate subcategory within Health/Mental Health. |
An addiction or dependency is the state of being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming.
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Please do not submit regionally-specific sites here, such as nursing homes, regional associations or organisations - these should be submitted to the most appropriate subcategory of the Regional/ tree. Thanks. |
The Aging category contains sites about the processes of aging including the psychosocial-environmental health aspects related to those processes. This includes sub-categories covering anti-aging, life expectancy, and the life cycle.
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No sites will be listed at this category level. Please find an appropriate subcategory. Sites with the primary purpose of offering products for sale by "distance shopping" will not be listed here. They should be submitted to Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Alternative . |
Alternative health deals with alternatives to conventional western scientific/medicine remedies. Topics found here may include complementary medicine, herbs, aromatherapy, oriental medicine, folk medicine and whole health remedies.
The primary focus of this category is on information, although commercial sites and service providers are listed in some subcategories.
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Commercial sites whose primary purpose is to sell a product should be submitted to the appropriate category in Shopping Sites on Animal Communication should be submitted to Society/Paranormal/Psychic/Animals. Sites on animal clinical nutrition should be submitted to: Heath/Animal/Pets/(choose appropriate pet)/Health/Nutrition, or Sports/Equestrian/Health_Care/Nutrition , or Business/Industries/Agriculture_and_Forestry/Livestock/(choose appropriate animal). |
This category features animal health related sites for pets, horses, and livestock.
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If your site offers products for sale online then please submit it under Shopping/Health/Beauty. Online shopping sites will not be listed here and submitting them here will severely delay the processing of your site as the unreviewed queue is typically very long.
If your site is about specific beauty services in a particular location, such as an individual or chain of beauty salons, then please submit it to the appropriate subcategory of Regional. Regionally-specific sites will not be listed here and, as above, submitting them here will severely delay the processing of your site. |
This category provides information on general beauty and health related issues.It does not include online shopping sites or regionally-specific beauty services.
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Submit sites that are related to children's health issues and concerns. Sites that are specifically designed or directed at children as the audience should be submitted to the appropriate Kids and Teens/Health category. |
This category provides health information, support and advice to parents and care givers about children ranging in age from newborn to twenty-one.
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This category contains informational sites about various health conditions. Please identify the best category for your site, as none are accepted at this level.
If the objective of your site is to sell a product to the public, please submit to the most appropriate sub-category within Shopping/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases If you are a business, selling products or services to the professional healthcare service, please submit to the most appropriate sub-category within Business/Healthcare/Products_and_Services If your site offers information about a specific medication, please submit to the appropriate category within Health/Pharmacy/Drugs_and_Medications. |
This category contains sites about various illnesses, conditions and diseases. It includes informational sites, organizations, support groups, and personal pages.
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No sites will be listed at this level. Please submit sites to a specific profession, disease, or interest group. |
Many professions and interest groups in the health field hold national or international meetings, conferences, and other gatherings. This category will contain links to specific subcategories for these events.
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Please submit sites providing information about a dental practice, with only one site per URL. If your site has several pages relevant to this topic, please submit only the main page. Multiple deep-links will not be listed. Dentistry practices will only be listed in the appropriate Regional category for which they are physically located. Submitting a practice site here may result in a delay in being listed in the directory. World is for sites in languages other than English. Business is for businesses which provide products or services to the dentist or dental industry. Shopping is for online sales sites for the consumer. |
Individual sites for dentist offices and practices are listed under the appropriate category in the Regional/ section of the Directory.Restorative dentistry, also known as operative dentistry, is concerned with the restoration of defects or caries in individual teeth.
Cosmetic dentistry is purely aesthetic and involves bleaching, bonding, veneers, reshaping, orthodontics, or implants.
Prosthetic dentistry includes implants.
Pediatric dentistry includes all services defined in the 'general practice' category, for children.
Orthodontics deals with problems in the alignment of teeth and jaws.
Endodontics is concerned with the morphology, physiology and pathology of the human dental pulp and periradicular tissues and root canal treatments.
Periodontics is concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the gums and supporting structures of the teeth.
Oral surgery refers to extractions.
Collection of various directories related to Health.
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No sites will be listed at the top level of Health/Education, as most sites focus on a specific topic and should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory under Health or Health/Education.
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Sites offering information on educating the public and professionals about health.
No sites will be listed at the top level of Health/Education, as most sites focus on a specific topic and should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory under Health or Health/Education.
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Sites listed here will be non-commercial, and will offer tips and programs for fitness. The following will NOT be listed here: sites for personal trainers, gyms, fitness studios, equipment sales, and sales of online training products and services. Please find a more appropriate category for such sites, as submitting them here will very likely delay their review. |
Sites included here are for any and all aspects of general fitness, from aerobics to flexibility to weight training and bodybuilding.
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This category is for sites about home care that do not fit into any of the listed subcategories. Thus, be sure to check and see if one of the subcategories would be more appropriate for your site before submitting to this category. |
This category does not accept submissions directly. Instead, please submit to the appropriate subcategory the you site would fit in.
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This category is for sites about the practice of medicine.
Information and advice on men's health issues. Product information is allowed as long as it is not for sale on the site.
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Please note:
Do not submit a site to the general mental health category, as it will likely delay getting your site listed in the directory.Instead, find the appropriate subcategory under mental health and submit the site there. Repetitive site submissions or sites already appropriately indexed elsewhere in the directory will not be accepted.Do not submit your site to this category!
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Mental health is a large-scale, general category with a great deal of subcategories found under it, especially in the Disorders section. If you are looking for resources or information on a specific mental health concern or issue, start there.Therapy, psychotherapy, and counseling services, organizations, and related information are under Counseling Services.
Sites submitted to this area must be in English.
All sites providing information pertaining to news and current events related to Health.
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Please submit sites with specimen care plans or advice and help on planning individualized care.
Sites related to nursing homes will be listed in the appropriate Regional category for which they are physically located. Submitting a nursing home site here may result in a delay in being listed in the directory. World is for sites in languages other than English. Business is for businesses which provide products or services to the healthcare industry. Shopping is for online sales sites for the consumer. |
This category provides links to areas of interest and resources for professional nurses.
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These subcategories do not list sites that offer sales of nutritional products and supplements. Submit sites involved with product sales to:
Shopping sites will not be listed in this category and submission here will only delay the processing of your site.
Please submit sites to the appropriate subcategory for review. No sites will be listed in this category. |
These subcategories are designed to include sites pertaining to human nutrition such as effects of vitamins, minerals, herbs, phytonutrients, and appropriate dietary makeup for humans. It is also designed for those who have news and information on health and nutrition and additionally for those medical professionals who cover this field.
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Occupational Safety and Health refers to preventing injuries and protecting the health of workers.
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Please choose the most specific subcategory for each site. Very few sites will be suitable for listing at this top level, which should be for sites about global organizations covering more than one field of health. |
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Submit sites for sales of medications and drugs to Shopping/Health/Pharmacy. Do not submit them here.
Note that affiliate shopping sites, such as E-Scripts.md, KwikMed.com, PillStore.com , Drugs-Express.com, OnlinePills.com, EPrescribe.com UltimateRX.com, MedPrescribe.com, SafeWebMedical.com, SelectPharmacy.com, are not eligible for listing. |
Includes general pharmaceutical information, related organizations and associations, pharmacy schools and information about specific medications.
| Sites for products or sales of health products should be submitted to Shopping/Health_and_Beauty |
This section provides links to various health products and shopping places.Sites for products or sales of health products should be submitted to Shopping/Health_and_Beauty
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Please submit sites that relate to the doula profession.
ODP Guidelines for Submitting a Site. Sites with a defined geographical area should also be submitted in the appropriate Regional category for which they are physically located. World is for sites in languages other than English. Business is for businesses which provide products or services to the healthcare industry. Shopping is for online sales sites for the consumer. |
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Please check each subcategory and choose the one most appropriate for your site, as this will minimize the time before it is reviewed. Sites will be accepted at the top level only if they apply to more than one of the subcategories, or if there is no suitable subcategory. Sites listed here will conform to the general requirements of http://dmoz.org/Health/ in terms of being more informational than commercial. |
Concerned with protecting and improving the health of communities and populations. Public health includes such diverse topics as preventive medicine; health education and promotion; sanitation and hygiene; communicable-disease control; emergency medical services; assessment and monitoring and organization of health services and policies.
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If you wish to submit your site located in a specific region, please locate the appropriate Regional category and submit there. |
Health resources arranged on a region specific basis.
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Sites listed here will focus on information and education, and will not be primarily commercial. For other sites, one of the following categories may be more suitable:
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Reproductive health is defined by the World Health Organization as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system at all stages of life. Reproductive health implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so. Implicit in this are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable, and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, and the right to appropriate health-care services that enable women to safely go through pregnancy and childbirth.
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Please find the most appropriate subcategory for your site. Submitting to this level when there is a specific subcategory is likely to delay review. |
NOTICE - No sites will be accepted to this category - please find a subcategory which suits your site better. ABSOLUTELY NO SITES WILL BE LISTED AT THIS LEVEL.
| Submit only those sites that provide information for and about seniors, their health issues, or care-giver issues. If your site has products for sale, please submit it to the appropriate Shopping site. |
Elder care and geriatric information. Sites related to aging and the elderly. Health issues in the natural process of aging, care givers help sites, support groups, professional organizations, housing, safety and well-being.
Before submitting your site, please review the Guidelines for Submitting a Site.
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If you offer Health related software, please consider submitting to |
This category includes sites relevant to services associated with a variety of health issues. One subcategory, Health:Services:Abortion, is designated for abortion providers (not pro-choice advocacy). Another subcategory, Health:Services:Abortion Alternative Services, is designated for health services associated with abortion alternatives (not pro-life advocacy). Other subcategories: Health Records Services; Seniors' Health Services; and On-Line Health Consulting. Future subcategories will organize any additional miscellanoeus health service topics not generally appearing in other health or medical categories. Not for hospitals, medical clinics, medical doctors' offices, medical laboratories, weight loss centers, physical fitness centers.
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This category is suitable for listing sites that are equivocal on the issues of drinking alcoholic beverages and health. Submit the listing to a more specific subcategory, if appropriate. |
The Specific Substances category focuses on health issues related to substances humans deliberately put into their bodies. Sites appropriate for this category include consumer information, professional information, organizations, services, and personal experiences.
Sites not listed in this category:
- Topics related to public policy issues are organized in Society: Issues: Health.
- Topics related to environmental exposure to toxic substances are organized in Science: Environment: Environmental Health: Toxic Substances.
- Topics related to occupational exposure to hazardous substances are organized in Health: Occupational Health and Safety: Hazardous Substances.
- Topics related to drugs and medications synthesized and manufactured for treating specific conditions and diseases are organized in Health: Pharmacy: Drugs and Medications.
- Topics related to herbal medications are organized in Health: Alternative: Herbs.
- Online retailers of products are organized in Shopping.
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Submit sites about support groups for specific disabilities to the appropriate Health/Support Groups/Conditions and Diseases category. |
Sites in this category serve the support needs of people with serious health conditions.The sites provide information and resources on common as well as uncommon conditions and diseases. Many sites provide news on issues related to health.
All sites listed are interactive - you will find message boards and chat areas for people with questions or concerns that effect their health or the health of a family member or friend.
You are encouraged to read the PRIVACY POLICY of each site.
Use these sites for educational and support purposes only. They should not be used as a substitute for a consultation or visit with your family physician or other health care provider.
Health information, advice and support for and by teens.
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Sites for sales of products are not accepted here. Weight loss products for sale must be submitted to Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Weight_Loss .
Multi-level Marketing Independent Representative sites are no longer listed in the Open Directory Project. |
This category is for Weight Loss Websites that focus on helping people lose weight.Sites that focus on selling a product are listed under Shopping/Health_and_Beauty/Weight_Loss.
MLM Independent Representative sites are no longer listed in the Open Directory Project.
This category addresses specific women's health issues on topics ranging from reproductive health to nutrition, and offers information, advice and health products.
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