Examples of sickness

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The herdsmen call it ' marmot sickness ' after the rodents that are chiefly responsible for carrying the disease.
The major flaw of the predictions of the hypothesis is that the two sickness benefits have faced serious cuts.
Let us go back to the example of the sickness insurance.
The two subscales, health worry and sickness orientation are negative in theme, therefore, some of the items are reversed.
The main reasons for nonattendance were sickness or other absence from work.
Legislation has entrusted the already existing sickness funds with the administration of longterm care insurance.
The malaise theory of depression : major depressive disorder is sickness behavior and antidepressants are analgesic.
Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic decline.
Critiquing notions that sickness is an outcome of genetics or lifestyle, it highlights class distributions of illness.
The wristbands were originally developed to combat motion sickness, specifically seasickness, but in recent years have been used in a variety of clinical situations.
Reducing sickness absenteeism is now in the employer's interest.
With regard to short-term disability benefit, or sickness pay, the measures taken have been far more drastic.
A partial reform was finally carried out in 1931, when sickness insurance societies with a monopoly for a given region were established.
The sickness insurance societies were regarded as inappropriate administrative bodies due to their being so split up.
Financing by means of the individual's own contributions was an important part of the pension and sickness insurance systems.
Young couples with (many) young children are thus a target for selective marketing, and the sickness funds try to attract them.
The low switching rates among the elderly are thus explained by both the (demand-side) higher switching costs, and the (supply-side) non-attractiveness to the sickness funds.
When asked about the reason for their move, the main stated reason was dissatisfaction with the health services provided by the sickness fund.
The likelihood to leave one's sickness fund varies across sickness funds.
We may have ameliorated the diseases of childhood, but we have replaced them with the sicknesses of middle and old age.
Our interviewees often mentioned sicknesses as the reason why a settlement was abandoned, as well as attacks by unfriendly neighbours or mounted warlords.
Fewer articles were identified to report the evidence or information for decompression sicknesses, exceptional blood loss, intracranial abscess, compromised skin grafts and flaps, and thermal burns.
Hence, they were susceptible to sicknesses.
We learn something new every day, for example, some of the elderly folks have sicknesses and you learn what to do and not to do for them.
In the world of domination and unfree bodies, the doctor is also the slavemaster; his visits bring sickness, not recovery; slavery, not emancipation.
I preach you don't have to die of sickness.
Sickness may be considered to be a punishment inflicted for neglect of certain taboos.
Most, through divorce, widowhood, sickness or marriage to a low-paid man, were or had been, main family earners.
Other important causes were old age, sickness, lack of a male breadwinner in the family and large family size.
In his later work he sets himself a new task, the necessity of working through one's decadence and sickness.
Reasons for abandoning the trial included sickness of the farmer and the desire to grow crops other than maize at the experimental site.
The harsh conditions did not only mean discomfort for the men; they also caused widespread sickness among the soldiers.
If so, what is the sickness or disability ?
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