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Organ Specific Diseases

Overview

Some conditions that are transmitted by an infectious agent may look similar to diseases that are not mediated by infections. For this reason, this page brings together illnesses of different body systemsm - the chest, the skin, the ears, the eyes, etc - and presents community approaches to chest problems (that might be adult pneumonia, or asthma) and the skin (that might be an infection, dermatitis or psoriasis), and so forth. 

We are building these resources, but will be including the nervous system (neurological diseases, e.g. epilepsy), eyes, ears, respiration (inc adult pneumonia), digestion (inc adult diarrhoea), skin, muscle, skeleton (but not trauma). community approaches to diseases of specific organs, e.g. epilepsy, adult pneumonia, eye care, or skin care.

Background

In the Community

Coming soon

Related Organisations

• WHO

Related Papers and Research 

• WHO on "Blindness: visual impairment and blindness"
• WHO on "Deafness and hearing impairment"
• WHO on "Epilepsy"
• WHO on "Haemoglobin disorders: sickle-cell disease and others"
• WHO on "Hepatitis A"
• WHO on "Hepatitis B"
• WHO on "Hepatitis E"
• WHO on "Asthma"