RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook medical condition Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia medical condition Adisease,illnessorinjury;anyphysiologic,mentalorpsychologicalconditionordisorder(e.g.,orthopaedic;visual,speechorhearingimpairments;cerebralpalsy;epilepsy;muscular...
Stress-related emotional illness results from inadequate or inappropriate responses to major changes in one's life situation, such as marriage, completing one's education, becoming a parent, losing a job, or retirement. Psychiatrists sometimes use the term adjustment disorder to describe this type ...
(2013) An exploration of social and economic outcome and associated health-related quality of life after critical illness in general intensive care unit survivors: a 12-month follow-up study. Crit Care 17:R100. https://doi.org/10.1186/cc12745 Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar ...
Rather than looking at illness as symptoms of physiological or psychological malfunctions, the article suggests an understanding that allows an active, perceptive body and views the self as an orienting point of 'being in the world'. The Tamils are seen to live in a tension in which the self...
Culture-specific models of disease affect how illness is understood by many SA patients [21, 22]. In culture-bound syndromes, terms used to describe symptoms, or metaphors used for phenomena related to disease, do not always have an easy translation or equivalent English term [22]. ...