SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Myositis, Conversion Disorder, Mental Disorder
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Prevalence rate: # persons with disease/total number of persons in population at risk at a particular point or period of time. Incidence rate: number of new cases of disease per unit of time/total number at risk at the beginning of a specified time period. Distinctions among terms disease, illness, disability and disorder. Disease: problems of the body internally caused physical abnormal conditions (vs conditions caused by events like accidents) that impair bodily functions. Impairment: an anomaly, defect, loss or other significant deviation from certain general accepted population standards of bodily function. Disability: inability to behaviorally, socially or psychologically function at a normatively defined level. A reduced ability to perform tasks one would normally do at a given stage in life . Handicap disability due to social arrangements e. g. inability to enter a building because lack of ramp (social model of disability) Not always direct illness: a physical or mental state that is experienced as troubling or unpleasasnt.
