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Health and health state
A person's health and wellness, conditions and issues.
working diagnosis
considered condition that one or more care professionals have determined to be the most consistent with observed conditions

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

working diagnosis

considered condition that one or more care professionals have determined to be the most consistent with observed conditions

working hypothesis

Note 1 to entry: A working diagnosis is used as a label for the considered condition that one or more care professionals assess as the most probable health condition and that could be concluded after further observations. The basis for such assessments is the already observed conditions.

Note 2 to entry: Different care professionals may make different interpretations and assessments of the observed conditions and thereby come to different conclusions and different working diagnosis

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **working diagnosis**
Specialization of			Generalization of
professionally assessed condition

Table 2. Associations of **working diagnosis**
Association from		Association name		Association to
1..*	working diagnosis	consistent with		0..*	observed condition
0..*	care professional	determines		1..*	working diagnosis

working diagnosisUML Representation — Figure 1. working diagnosis (UML Representation)