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Health and health state
A person's health and wellness, conditions and issues.
target condition
potential health condition representing either health objectives or care goals

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

target condition

potential health condition representing either health objectives or care goals

target health condition, intended outcome

EXAMPLE 1 The target condition for a worker that arrived at the Emergency Room with a broken arm is to be fully functional for work in the shortest time period.

EXAMPLE 2 The target condition of a newly diagnosed diabetic adolescent boy is maintenance of his HbA1c at less than 48 mmol/mol. (HbA1c is a lab test that shows the average level of blood sugar (glucose) over the previous 3 months; it shows how well diabetes is being controlled).

Note 1 to entry: Assessment of needs for care activities includes identification of health objectives and/or care goals. These inform decisions about relevant activities to create or update the care plan

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **target condition**
Specialization of			Generalization of
potential health condition

Table 2. Associations of **target condition**
Association from		Association name		Association to
1..*	care process evaluation	considers		0..*	target condition
1..*	target condition	represents		1..*	intended outcome

target conditionUML Representation — Figure 1. target condition (UML Representation)