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Health and health state
A person's health and wellness, conditions and issues.
health need
health matter causing a deficit in the current health state compared to aspects of a desired future health state

Health and health state
A person's health and wellness, conditions and issues.
- health state
  overall level of health of a subject of care
- health matter
  circumstance contributing to the health state of a person
- clinical care
  care activity converned with physical or mental care needs
- clinical matter
  health matter concerned with the body or mind
- social matter
  care matter concerning how a subject of care lives in their social environment
- health condition
  aspect of a health state
- health issue
  health condition motivating care
- social issue
  health issue that is a social matter
- clinical issue
  health issue that is a clinical matter
- health problem
  health condition considered by a care actor to be a problem
- health thread
  defined association between care circumstances as determined by one or more care actors
- health problem list
  health thread linking a set of health problems
- observed condition
  health condition observed by a care actor
- considered condition
  potential health condition considered by a care actor on the basis of one or more observed conditions
- professionally assessed condition
  observed condition assessed by a care professional
- vulnerability
  health condition that is an exposure to the risk of harm
- excluded condition
  considered condition that one or more care professionals have determined not to be consistent with the known observed conditions
- working diagnosis
  considered condition that one or more care professionals have determined to be the most consistent with observed conditions
- prognostic condition
  potential health condition representing the expected course of a health state as assessed by care professionals
- resultant condition
  observed condition representing an output health state
- target condition
  potential health condition representing either health objectives or care goals
- risk condition
  health condition representing a potential undesired future health state
- social environment
  immediate physical and social setting in which a subject of care lives and interacts
- health need
  health matter causing a deficit in the current health state compared to aspects of a desired future health state
- social need
  health need related to social determinants of health
- clinical need

health need

health matter causing a deficit in the current health state compared to aspects of a desired future health state

Note 1 to entry: The desired future health state can be a health objective expressed as target conditions.

Note 2 to entry: The health need can be identified and formulated by the subject of care or by any other care actor

Note 3 to entry: Health needs are the motivations/indications for care activities and are the basic input to care needs assessments.

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **health need**
Specialization of			Generalization of
state			social need

Table 2. Associations of **health need**
Association from		Association name		Association to
1..*	intended outcome	addresses		0..*	health need
1..*	needed care activity	addresses		1..*	health need
0..*	health need	background for		1..*	reason for request for care
0..*	health need	considered during		1..*	care needs assessment
1..1	health need	deficit in		1..1	health state
0..*	subject of care	has or has had		1..1	health need

health needUML Representation — Figure 1. health need (UML Representation)