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  1. 27 de feb. de 2022 · An Illness script is a powerful tool to store information about key features of different diseases. It benefits the most from clinical categories that can be useful to compare and contrast when facing a specific symptom, syndrome, laboratory alteration, or imaging finding.

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  2. This chapter proceeds to discuss the features of a disease and the specific realities of illness by showing the difference between the two concepts. Disease and illness categories (acute, chronic, accidents/injuries, and mental disease/illness) are discussed.

  3. 1 de ene. de 2015 · Introduction. This chapter offers a philosophical analysis of the illness experience. It uses a phenomenological approach to study the experience of illness and describe its salient features. Using a phenomenological framework, the chapter looks at the physical and social world of the ill person and at changes to self-identity, time , and death.

  4. 1 de mar. de 2024 · Patients diagnosed with a serious illness often ask doctors about prognosis as a way into talking about what life might be like in the future. 1 2 Illness trajectories can offer conceptual maps of archetypical patient journeys in the final years and months of life.

  5. Current estimates suggest that up to 80% of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes and more than one-third of cancers worldwide could be prevented by eliminating shared modifiable risk factors—mainly tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol (WHO 2008) (see Chapter 8 ‘Prevention for a healthier future’).

  6. The extended model provides detail on: (a) the mediating process by which individuals’ illness representations relate to illness outcomes through adoption of coping procedures; (b) how illness representations are activated by presentation of health-threatening stimuli; (c) behavioral and treatment beliefs as determinants of coping procedures and...

  7. 17 de jun. de 2022 · De-emphasizing syndromes, we focus on the underlying biological changes that underpin critical illness states and that may be amenable to treatment.