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Health
Health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (World Health Organisation)
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Ill health
Ill health is a state in which an individual is unable to function normally because of the presence of something negative like a disease, or the absence of something positive like adequate nutrition.
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Disease
Disease is a diagnostic label given to a set of signs or symptoms, which are usually long term eg. CHD. Disease can be communicable or non-communicable.
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Stress-related illness
Stress related illness refers to the physical symptoms, which result from physiological effects that occur when a person feels anxious and unable to cope with stressors like work, financial or family problems eg. IBS, headaches, palpitations.
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Mental health
Mental health is not just the absence of a mental illness, but a form of subjective well-being, in which an individual feels able to cope with life
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Mental illness
Mental illness refers to a psychological condition that is characterised by behaviour which is abnormal and is often linked to chemical changes in the brain eg. depression, bipolar disorder
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Autonomy
The right to choice
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Empowered
Feeling that you are in control of a situation
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Disempowered
The feeling of having no control
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Morbidity
How likely you are to contact the disease
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Mortality
How likely you are to die from the disease
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Health inequalities
How health differs depending on social class
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Ill health is a state in which an individual is unable to function normally because of the presence of something negative like a disease, or the absence of something positive like adequate nutrition.

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Ill health

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Disease is a diagnostic label given to a set of signs or symptoms, which are usually long term eg. CHD. Disease can be communicable or non-communicable.

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Stress related illness refers to the physical symptoms, which result from physiological effects that occur when a person feels anxious and unable to cope with stressors like work, financial or family problems eg. IBS, headaches, palpitations.

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Mental health is not just the absence of a mental illness, but a form of subjective well-being, in which an individual feels able to cope with life

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