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To conclude, Health
is multifaceted, relative and fluctuating feature of life. Disease is probabilistically
defined and measured with the attendant problems this brings. Health care demand is driven
largely by illness overlapping with disease, but it is the illness rather than the disease
that drives people to seek medical help. Most disease is either self-limiting or currently
incurable. Finally, how we view the world will affect how we respond to it. This is the
case for all peoples, in all places, at all times. This included doctors and patients. A
limited medical model of disease often fails to overlap with the patient’s experience of
illness.
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