What is the difference between disease and illness?!

Question: Disease referes to a diagnosable problem, which might be physiological (a physical disorder) or psychiatric (a mental disorder). This view of ill health is objective.

Illness means feeling ill. People might feel ill when they have some disease symptoms; they also might feel ill when no symptoms are present.

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Answers: Disease referes to a diagnosable problem, which might be physiological (a physical disorder) or psychiatric (a mental disorder). This view of ill health is objective.

Illness means feeling ill. People might feel ill when they have some disease symptoms; they also might feel ill when no symptoms are present.

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disease is a process, illness is the result.

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People can also feel well and have a disease. I had breast cancer and felt just fine.

Syphilis is a disease which just shows up at first with minor outbreaks or lesions. It may go "underground" for as long as twenty years before the symptoms reappear and result in death.

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