The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) was founded in 1947 to promote the science and art of family medicine.

It is one of the largest medical organizations in the United States, with over 100,000 members.

The AAFP was instrumental in establishing family medicine as a recognized medical specialty; a certifying board was approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 1969.

The AAFP is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.

Women's health refers to the health of women, which differs from that of men in many unique ways.

Women's health is an example of population health, where health is defined by the World Health Organization as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".

Often treated as simply women's reproductive health, many groups argue for a broader definition pertaining to the overall health of women, better expressed as "The health of women".

These differences are further exacerbated in developing countries where women, whose health includes both their risks and experiences, are further disadvantaged.

Health informatics (also called health care informatics, healthcare informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, clinical informatics, or biomedical informatics) is informatics in health care.

It is a multidisciplinary field that uses health information technology (HIT) to improve health care via any combination of higher quality, higher efficiency (spurring lower cost and thus greater availability), and new opportunities.

The disciplines involved include information science, computer science, social science, behavioral science, management science, and others.

The NLM defines health informatics as "the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption and application of IT-based innovations in healthcare services delivery, management and planning." It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine.

Health informatics tools include amongst others computers, clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems.

It is applied to the areas of nursing, clinical medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, occupational therapy, physical therapy, biomedical research, and alternative medicine.

All of which are designed to improve the overall of effectiveness of patient care delivery by ensuring that the data generated is of a high quality e.g. an mHealth based early warning scorecard.

Health education is a profession of educating people about health.

Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health.