Hastalıkların toplumsal yansıması: Hastalık kimliği ve hastalıkların kimlikleşme sebepleri.

Health is not only a phenomenon with a medical dimension. It also has social and psychological aspects. Especially illnesses become a phenomenon that defines the individual in society and causes stigmatisation in the eyes of other people. In this study, qualitative research method was preferred in order to identify the illnesses that are thought to be identified by the society and to reveal the reasons for the identification of illnesses from the eyes of the society, and data were collected from 152 volunteer participants over the age of 18 through a structured questionnaire. It was determined that 51 different illnesses can become an identity. Among these diseases, diabetes (51), cancer (46) and heart diseases (37) were found to be prominent. In the same way, it has been determined that the limitations caused by diseases, the acceptance of the disease by the individual and the changes caused by the disease in the individual, the shaping of life by the disease, the necessity of the disease, the continuity of the disease and other features of the disease, the prioritisation of the disease and negative attitudes and behaviours towards the sick individual can cause a disease to become an identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]