KP231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Endocarditis, Congenital Heart Defect, Common Cold
1 Nov 2018
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Illness: ill health the person identi es themselves with, often based on self reported mental or physical symptoms. Illness is a subjectively interpreted undesirable state of health. It consists of subjective feeling states (ie. pain, weakness), perceptions pf the adequacy of their bodily functioning, feeling of competence (twaddle, 1994a, p. 10) Disease on the other hand, is de ned as a condition that is diagnosed by a physician or other medical expert. Ideally, this would include a speci c diagnosis according to standardized and systematic diagnostics codes. Disease is a health problem that consists of a physiological malfunction that results in an actual or potential reduction in physical capacities and/or a reduced life expectancy (twaddle, 1994, p. 8) The state of being ill or unhealthy. It is poor health or the health problem of an individual de ned by others with reference to the social activity of that individual (twaddle,
