HEALTH PROBLEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health problem mean? 

• HEALTH PROBLEM (noun)
  The noun HEALTH PROBLEM has 1 sense:

1. a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

  Familiarity information: HEALTH PROBLEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH PROBLEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

health problem; ill health; unhealthiness

Hypernyms ("health problem" is a kind of...):

pathological state (a physical condition that is caused by disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "health problem"):

dyscrasia (an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body)

illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)

invalidism (chronic ill health)

biliousness (gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder)

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

affliction (a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health)

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))

 Context examples 

Sometimes patients whose test results are outside of the normal range may be healthy, and some patients whose test results are within the normal range may have a health problem.

(Normal range, NCI Dictionary)

Sometimes this malfunction is due to a health problem, such as a spinal cord injury or a pinched nerve in the neck or back.

(Muscle Cramps, NIH)

In medicine, a health problem with certain characteristics or symptoms.

(Condition, NCI Dictionary)

A health problem that may involve ovarian cysts is polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

(Ovarian Cysts, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

A set of manual or instrumental activities that are intended to treat a health problem in order to achieve a positive result.

(Physical Medical Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

A health problem that occurs months or years after a disease is diagnosed or after treatment has ended.

(Late effect, NCI Dictionary)

Drug abuse is a serious public health problem.It affects almost every community and family in some way.

(Drugs and Young People, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that affects almost every community and family in some way.

(Drug Abuse, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Test codes of questionnaire questions associated with the the version 2.0 of the work productivity and activity impairment specific health problem questionnaire (WPAI:SHP) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire WPAI:SHP v2.0 Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the the version 2.0 of the work productivity and activity impairment specific health problem questionnaire (WPAI:SHP) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire WPAI:SHP v2.0 Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)