Sentence examples for illness referred from inspiring English sources
Correction: January 10 , 2001 Wednesday The Public Lives profile on Monday, about the Clinton administration's top drug policy official, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who advocates health insurance coverage for addiction and mental illness on a par with benefits for physical illness, referred incorrectly to the group that has just received such benefits under the federal employee plan.
Furthermore, Napoleon began to suffer from illness, referred to variously as a colic or fatigue.
However, we did not include any costs associated with long-term consequences of dengue, a possible chronic sequela of illness referred to as post-infectious fatigue syndrome.
For assessing the intensity of fatigue we used the FACIT Fatigue Scale, one of health related, quality of life questionnaires devised for the management of chronic illness referred to as the FACIT Measurement System.
Psychosocial factors such as an individual's perception of his or her ability to deal with illness, referred to as perceived control, have been demonstrated to be an important correlate of health status, both in rhinitis and asthma [ 7, 14], as well as other chronic conditions [ 15].
GPs continue to treat many people with ME as though it were a mental illness, referring patients for cognitive behaviour therapy and exercise.
Thus mental illness refers to a specific set of medically defined conditions.
Usually the concept of illness refers to the subjective response to feeling unwell [ 17].
In this study, severe mental illness refers to having a psychosis or severe psychiatric disability that extends over at least two years [ 26].
The term 'chronic illness' refers to illnesses that require at least 6 months of continuous medical care, permanent life style changes and continuous behavioral adaptation to the unpredictable course of the illness [ 2].
From these definitions, illness refers to the subjective sense of feeling unwell; illness does not define a specific pathology, but refers to a person's subjective experience of it, such as discomfort, tiredness, or general malaise (92).
