Disease

To define the term Disease To define health, it is first of all useful to use the definition of health in the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) of 22.07.1946: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not the mere absence of Diseases or infirmity".

It becomes clear that this term does not only refer to physical health, but also mental and spiritual health.

The value of health is often only recognized after an illness has occurred. The following quote sums it up well: “The healthy person has many wishes, the sick person only one!”

Another definition of illness is: “Any disturbance of the normal condition or normal functioning of the body that must be cured, eliminated or alleviated.” The main factors for health are: healthy nutrition, healthy environment, mental and emotional health. From 01.01.2008, the doctors in outpatient and inpatient care using the ICD–10–GM version 2008.

The ICD-10 was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) and translated into German and published on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health. The abbreviation ICD stands for "International Statistical Classification of Diseases". There is also a classification that takes the cause of the disease into account. Examples of this are infectious diseases, accidents, hereditary diseases, and autoimmune diseases.

According to the prevention specialists of the practice clinic for Diagnostics and Preventive Medicine in Bornheim near Cologne, Bonn and Düsseldorf if possible in the sense of an evidence-based Medicine be treated:

The treatment of the patient is based on clinical studies and medical publications, but the individual situation of the patient is also taken into account, as well as the doctor's experience in treating patients with the same diseases.