Illness
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Illness can be defined as a state of poor health, with health defined by the World Health Organization as "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 1946) [1]. What can cause and continue this impairment of physical, mental, or social well-being includes but is not limited to disease.