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Disease Versus Illness in General Practice

Overview
Journal J R Coll Gen Pract
Specialty Public Health
Date 1981 Sep 1
PMID 7328537
Citations 51
Authors
C G Helman
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Abstract

Two different, though interrelated, conceptions of ill-health - disease and illness - are described. Recent literature on this disease/illness model is reviewed, and the value of this approach to general practice is shown.

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