Two points can be noted: first, surveys are commonly made by lay interviewers, who do not themselves diagnose and have no skills to recognize illness, let alone do anything to alleviate it; second, research that may benefit a society cannot be made too onerous, or it will never be done.
I agree with Dr. Harold Schwartz, the psychiatrist at the Hartford hearing who said, "The failure to recognize illness and the need for treatment... is a function of the disease's impact on the brain", but it is the word "recognize" I would emphasize, not the words "illness" or "disease".
The trained health workers were able to prevent problems, recognize illness early, and provide treatment before complications escalated to emergencies.
Other efforts have utilized community health workers to perform home perinatal visits, recognize illness and refer sick neonates, and manage neonatal infections [ 12, 13].
To avoid a fatal outcome, three essential steps must be completed: caretakers must recognize illness, decide to seek care and reach an appropriate source of care, and then receive appropriate treatment.
This strategy relies upon caregivers to recognize illness symptoms, assess their severity and take appropriate action, either by initiating early treatment in the home with anti-malarial drugs, or by seeking care at a health facility in the case of severe illness [ 5, 6].
Medicine recognizes illnesses like hypertension and Cushing's disease that are the outcome of systems in a poorly regulated state that is stable, albeit suboptimal.
A mutated flagellum or cilium gene, then, could cause a serious, recognized illness.
