I am currently working on a blog where I would like to create links to my individual articles in the following form:
http://www.mysite.com/health/2013/08/25
This is called Semantic URLs, they're also referred to as slugified URLs.
You can do this with the .htaccess command RewriteURL
.htaccess
RewriteURL
Ex:
RewriteURL ^(.*)$ handler.php?path=$1
Now handler.php gets /health/2013/08/25/some-random-title and this is your entry point.
handler.php
/health/2013/08/25/some-random-title