Talk:Health problem

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This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... Health problem is not the same as Medical condition or Disease. Health problem also includes social problems, fear of disease and health process activities. Health problem: "Any concern in relation to the health of a patient as determined by the patient and/or the health care provider. Problems should be recorded at the highest level of specificity determined at the time of an encounter. 1. New problem : The first presentation of a problem, including the first presentation of a recurrence of a previously resolved problem but excluding the presentation of a problem first assessed by another provider. 2. Continuing problem : A previously assessed problem which requires ongoing care. It includes followup for a problem or an initial presentation of a problem previously assessed by another provider."

Disease: "A physiological or psychological dysfunction. It should be distinguished from illness, which is the subjective state of the person who feels aware of not being well; and from sickness which is a state of social dysfunction, ie a role that the individual assumes when ill. Disease can also be construed as a more narrow concept discernable from syndrome and complaint : a biological dysfunction on basis of well-known pathological or pathophysiological processes or with a well-known aetiology. Disease can be discerned from : 1. Syndrome which is a presumed biological dysfunction of which the knowledge of causative pathological or pathophysiological processes is not accepted as conclusive for seeing it as a DISEASE, according to the literature. A dysfunction or health problem is considered a DISEASE by professional consensus. If this does not exist it is a syndrome. 2. Complaint is not part of a DISEASE or syndrome. Disease is a concept of reality and can therefore exist without a physician's judgement. DISEASE, syndrome and complaint are congruent with diagnostic categories." WONCA international glossary for general/family practice --Raimundo Pastor (talk) 17:40, 19 May 2012 (UTC)