Health educator
Health educators teach individuals and communities how to live healthier lifestyles. They instruct them on nutrition and the avoidance of unhealthy activities like smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. A health educator's goal is to provide people with tools that allow them to avoid developing life-threatening health issues.
Homeopathic medicinal product
A homoeopathic medicinal product is defined in European legislation as: "Any medicinal product prepared from substances called homeopathic stocks in accordance with a homeopathic manufacturing procedure described by the European Pharmacopoeia or, in the absence thereof, by the pharmacopoeias currently used officially in the Member States. A homeopathic medicinal product may contain a number of principles".
Homeopathy
A system of treating diseases in which sick people are given very small amounts of natural substances that, in healthy people, would produce the same effects as the diseases produce.
IT: Omeopatia
FR: Homéopathie
HPV test
A laboratory test in which cells are tested for DNA or RNA from certain types of human Papillomavirus
IT: HPV test
Hysterectomy
A surgical operation to remove all or part of the uterus
IT: Isterectomia
FR: Hystérectomie