Question

Explain each of the following 150 words each

healthy

Disease

Illness

Disorders.

Answer 1

1. HEALTH

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

The bibliographic citation for this definition is: Preamble to the Constitution of WHO as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19 June - 22 July 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of WHO, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948. The definition has not been amended since 1948.

2. DISEASE

Sickness or pathological process characterized by specific signs and symptoms. A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. In short, disease then, is the pathological process, deviation from a biological norm.

3. ILLNESS

It is a feeling, an experience of unhealth which is entirely personal, interior to the person of the patient. Often it accompanies disease, but the disease may be undeclared, as in the early stages of cancer or tuberculosis or diabetes. Sometimes illness exists where no disease can be found. i.e., illness is the patient's experience of ill health, sometimes when no disease can be found.

4. DISORDERS

It means irregularity, disturbance, or interruption of normal functions and defined as an abnormal physical or mental condition, the existence of a clinically recognizable set of symptoms or behaviour associated in most cases with distress and with interference with personal functions.