Concept of illness and disease

Concept of illness and disease

Disease -

The term disease means without ease, the opposite of ease, when something is wrong with bodily function. 

Disease is a physiological or psychological disfunction.

Sickness refers to a state of social disfunction. 

Illness is the inability of an individual adaptive responses to maintain physical and emotional balance that subsequently results in an impairment of functional abilities.

There are two measure classification of illness.

1: Acute 

2: Chronic 

1: Acute - An Acute illness is a disruption in functional ability usually characteristics by a rapid onset, instance Mainfaction and a relatively short duration.

Signs of Acute illness onset rapidly.

Examples - nausea , vomiting, diarrhea, headache, coughing, pain, confusion, skin rash.

2: Chronic - A chronic illness is a disruption of functional ability usually characterises by a gradual insidious onset. with life long changes that are usually irreversible.

Chronic illness last a long time frequently throughout the individual life.

Chronic illness slow onset usually longer than 6 months.

Examples - AIDS , Cancer, TB etc.