Talk:Natural history of disease

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Until recovery or death?

People may not completely recover from a disease, but not die because of the disease either. Should we take this into account in the definition? Lesion (talk) 12:35, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A fair question. The focus here is on a particular disease in individual people. If it never resolves in an individual, then its natural history will end with the death of that person (tertium non datur). 86.186.155.147 (talk) 19:27, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

'Iceberg phenomenon'

I'm not sure this content really belongs here (WP:COAT) - as currently framed it's focused on a different topic: Iceberg phenomenon (medicine)(?) [1] I'm moving it here, per WP:UNDUE:

The "iceberg phenomenon" is a metaphor emphasizing that for virtually every health problem the number of known cases of disease is outweighed by those that remain undiscovered, much as the unseen part of an iceberg is much larger than the part that is visible above the water. This term was first applied in the context of the natural history of disease by John M Last.^[1] The iceberg phenomenon attempts to assess the burden of disease and the need for services, as well as the selection of representative cases for study. This leads to what has been called the "clinician’s fallacy" in which an inaccurate view of the nature and causes of a disease results from studying the minority of cases of the disease ^[2]^[3]

^ Last JM. The Iceberg: completing the clinical picture in general practice. Lancet. 1963;2:28–31.
^ Morris, J. N. (1975). Uses of Epidemiology. New York: Churchill & Livingstone.
^ Duncan, D. F. (1987). Epidemiology: Basis for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. New York: MacMillan.

86.164.164.29 (talk) 09:48, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Natural history of disease short paragraphs

Ok 27.34.22.171 (talk) 10:18, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of this article.

What happen if you remove the word natural then we can browse the history of disease according to humanity. Can someone find a link to this? Cmiiw. 2404:8000:1027:3C00:95C6:7037:F8E1:2277 (talk) 07:32, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Last JM. The Iceberg: completing the clinical picture in general practice. Lancet. 1963;2:28–31.

[2] Morris, J. N. (1975). Uses of Epidemiology. New York: Churchill & Livingstone.

[3] Duncan, D. F. (1987). Epidemiology: Basis for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. New York: MacMillan.

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