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Direct linkGray, Jennifer B.; Riley, Sarah – Communication Teacher, 2011
A key concept in health communication is the difference between disease and illness: disease refers to the physical manifestations of a condition, while illness encompasses the physical, emotional, social, communicative, and psychological experience of living with a condition. The individual illness experience takes into account the full story of…
Descriptors: Diseases, Patients, Psychology, Health Personnel
