observed or potential observable aspects of the health state at a given time
EXAMPLES A health problem, diagnosis: an acute myocardial infarction (professionally assessed condition); a symptom: a head ache (observed condition).
NOTE 1 In the perspective of healthcare, the term health condition is often used to label a harmful or adverse condition (diseases, disorders, injuries, etc.), because it may motivate certain healthcare activities. NOTE 2 A health state is an object, a perception of which is a health condition. The underlying health state is nevertheless present even if not perceived by an observer, for example, the subject of care having a cancer before it gives symptoms. NOTE 3 In a clinical process, the health state of the subject of care is process input and also the process output. The evolving health state follows a life cycle and along its successive steps, is observed as different health conditions: initial, observed condition, considered condition, professionally assessed condition, resultant condition (the outcome of the process), evaluated. NOTE 4 A diagnosis is a way to describe and label certain types of health conditions. NOTE 5 Health condition may relate to a past, present or potential future health state. NOTE 6 A health condition is a health issue and as such is a representation of aspect(s) of the health state.
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Expresses a partitive relationship between two concepts.