TÓPICO 01:

Health and
Illness
1. Asking about health

Health is the state of the body.

1. Asking about health

"Health is a state of complete

physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or
infirmity".

What is your general health like?

Or

How is your health, generally?

 If you in good health, ...

... you are well and have

no illness (disease).
 If you are healthy, ...

... you are normally well

and can resist illness.
 Fit:

Cambridge Dictionary
Fit:
Fit: healthy and strong,
especially as a result of exercise:

Ex 1: I jog (corro) to keep fit.

Ex 2:You need to be very fit to

hike (caminhar/percorrer) the
Inca Trail.

 Healthy
Fit
Fit and well

Not ill

In good health
Well
Very well
 Unhealthy
Unfit
Poorly

ill Unwell

Not well In poor health

Not very well
 Sickness:

Sickness has a similar meaning to illness.

Names of diseases:
Sleeping sickness
Travel sickness
Sickness:

Patients also talk about sickness

when they mean (quando se referem a)
nausea and vomiting.
Sickness:

Ex: Drinking unclean water can

cause diarrhoea and sickness.
 Sickness:

Patient says Possible meanings

I was ill this morning.

I was sick this morning. I felt unwell this morning.
I vomited this morning.
Sickness:

Patient says Possible meanings

I feel ill.
I feel unwell.
I feel sick.
I am nauseous (enjoado).
I feel the need to vomit.
Sickness vs Illness vs Disease: Qual é a diferença?

 Recovery: When patients return to normal health

after illness, they have recovered (eles se
recuperaram).

good
The patient made a full recovery.
complete
 If a patient's health is in the process of returning
to normal, the patient is improving.

The opposite is deteriorating.

Patient's condition:
Improved or
Deteriorated.
Recovery:
Verb get to talk about change:

1. over (an illness) 1. to recover

Get 2. better 2. to improve
3. worse 3. to deteriorate
 Recovery:

If a patient is better, but then gets worse again, the

patient has relapsed (to become ill or start behaving
badly again, after making an improvement).
 Recovery:

Another word for improvement, especially in

recurring conditions such as cancer, is remission
(Alívio nos sintomas de uma doença).
Recovery:

Examples:
He got over the illness very quickly.

Two years later she remains in complete

remission.
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 GLENDINNING, E.; HOWARD, R. Professional English In Use:

Medicine. 1. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 .
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