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Health matters
The concepts describing how a person is: their health state, the clinical and social matters it comprises, and the health conditions identified within it.
health need
health matter causing a deficit in the current health state compared to aspects of a desired future health state

Health matters
The concepts describing how a person is: their health state, the clinical and social matters it comprises, and the health conditions identified within it.
- 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 concerned with physical or mental health needs
- clinical matter
  health matter concerned with the body or mind
- social matter
  health 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 issue considered by a care actor to be a problem
- health thread
  defined association between health matters as determined by one or more care actors
- health problem list
  health thread linking a set of health problems
- potential health condition
  possible future or current health condition described by a care actor
- observed condition
  health condition observed by a care actor
- considered condition
  potential health condition considered by a care actor based on 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
  professionally assessed 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
  health condition representing an output health state
- target condition
  potential health condition representing either intended outcomes or care goals
- risk condition
  health condition representing a potential undesired future health state
- social environment
  immediate physical and social setting in which a person 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
  health need related to the body or mind

health need

health matter causing a deficit in the current health state compared to aspects of a desired future health state

health need extends the class health matter

Table 1. Associations of health need
Source multiplicity	Source class	Association	Target class	Target multiplicity
0..*	health need	background for	reason for request for care	1..*
0..*	health need	considered during	care needs assessment	1..*
1	health need	deficit in	health state	1
1..*	intended outcome	addresses	health need	0..*
1..*	needed care activity	addresses	health need	1..*
0..*	subject of care	has or has had	health need	1

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Plural health needs

Note 1 The desired future health state can be an intended outcome expressed as target condition.

Note 2 The health need can be identified and formulated by the subject of care or by any other care actor.

Note 3 Health needs indicate and motivate care activities. They are the basic input to care needs assessments.