title: Disease versus illness in general practice.
abstract: Two different, though interrelated, conceptions of ill-health - disease and illness - are described. Recent literature on this disease/illness model is reviewed, and the value of this approach to general practice is shown.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D004194:Disease; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D011247:Pregnancy