PDF 3 (Health and illness 2) LEC

Illness

-a person feels unhealthy

-failure to maintain internal environment

Symptom Experience

Assumption of Sick Role

Medical Care Contact

Dependent Patient Role

Recovery/ Rehabilitation

5 Stages of Illness

Symptom Experience

-transition stage

-person believe something is wrong

-3 aspects (Physical, Cognitive, Emotional)

Assumption of Sick Role

-acceptance of illness

-seeks confirmation and seeks advice

-does self-treatment and delays that contact with HCP

Medical Care Contact

-seeks advice of HCP for the following:

validation of real illness

explanation of symptoms

Dependent Patient Role

-person becomes a client dependent on the HCP for help

-accepts and rejects help suggestions

-regress to an earlier behavioral stage

Recovery/ Rehabilitation

-gives up the sick role and returns to former roles and functions

Genetic and Physiological

Lifestyle/Behavioral factors

Environmental

Age

Risk Factor of Illness

Genetic and Physiological factors= Heredity

Diabetes Mellitus

Hypertension

Cancer

Lifestyle/ Behavioral Factors

Cigarette Smoking

Alcohol Abuse

High animal fat intake

Environmental= Home situation/workplace

Overcrowding

Poor Sanitation

Poor Supply of potable water

Age= Susceptibillity to Illness

Chromosomal abnormalities

Hypertension

Heart Problems

Disease

alteration in body function resulting to reduction of capacities/ shortening of normal life span

Biologic Agents (Microorganism)

Inherited Genetic Defects (Left Palate)

Developmental Defects (Imperforate Anus)

Physical Agents (Radiation, UV rays)

Chemical Agents (Smoke-Belching Carbon Monoxide)

Tissue Response (fever, Inflammation)

Faulty Chemical/ Metabolic Process (inadequate insulin in diabetes Mellitus)

Emotional/ Physical Reaction to Stress (Anxiety/ Fear)

Common Cause of Disease

Acute Illness

Chronic Illness

Classification of Illness and Disease

Acute Illness

-short duration

-severe

-signs and symptoms appear abruptly and subsides after a short period

Ex: Acute Appendicitis

Chronic Illness

-usually longer than 6 months

-fluctuate between maximum functioning and serious relapses that is life threatening

Ex: Hypertension

Remission and Exacerbation

Chronic Illness is characterized by?

Remission

It is a period which the disease is controlled and symptoms are not obvious

Exacerbation

The dissease become more active with recurrence of pronounced symptoms