Illness

Illness is the state that is perceived by the individual when he is suffering from disease or other disorders. It is an awareness of being unhealthy and is more abstract than the simple presence of symptoms, which is a manifestation. It includes the distress and discomfort associated with disease and the psychological response to the presence of disease.

In 1994, roughly one in three people in Europe suffered from a long-term illness, and on any one day more than half the population will be taking a drug of some kind.

1. The man is not sick because he has an illness, but has an illness because he is sick.

1. Impairment

1. Vulnerability of organisms
2. Unreported illness
3. Suffering
4. Starvation
5. Spiritual impurity
6. Spasticity
7. Predisposition to illness
8. Physiological shock
9. Pain
10. Morbidity
11. Mental illness
12. Health inequalities
13. Fatigue
14. Exhaustion
15. Disharmonies of the body
16. Diseases of the respiratory system
17. Disease
18. Human ageing

1. Uncertainty

1. Vice
2. Unwarranted pessimism
3. Unhealthy behaviour
4. Poverty
5. Pollution
6. Neglected health practices
7. Loss of capacity with age
8. Injuries
9. Fragility of maintaining basic health
10. Fear

1. Sin
2. Impropriety
3. Envy
4. Badness

1. Wounding
2. Studying causes of general poor health
3. Researching diseases
4. Overcoming
5. Mending wounds
6. Improving health
7. Caring for the sick

1. Unwholesomeness
2. Spasticity
3. Disease
4. Poverty
5. Sickness
6. Wound
7. Illness
8. Malaise