Illness Severity
Dimension 655 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Illness Severity measures the extent to which an expression centers on the presence, seriousness, and perceived importance of a medical condition or illness. It encompasses references ranging from incidental or unrelated health content to explicit identification of serious, life-threatening, or especially consequential illness.
evidence final name · Serious Condition
Minimal Illness Severity
Expressions activating this band contain unrelated content or only incidental mentions of health, treatment, or bodily experience without a clear focus on a serious medical condition. The illness-related content is absent, diffuse, or limited to general background references.
Moderate Illness Severity
Expressions activating this band refer to a medical condition, disability, treatment need, or serious health event in a general way. The expression identifies illness or injury as meaningful and consequential, but does not strongly emphasize life-threatening status or personal salience.
High Illness Severity
Expressions activating this band explicitly describe a serious or life-threatening illness, diagnosis, disability, or major health-related hardship. The expression treats the condition as established and substantial, often with attention to duration, onset, or ongoing treatment.
Severe Illness Severity
Expressions activating this band focus directly on judging or identifying an illness as serious, most serious, or especially important. The expression foregrounds the perceived gravity and priority of the condition itself.
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Minimal Serious Condition: Content characterized by tax, taxes, corporate, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect serious condition at this level.
Moderate Serious Condition: Content characterized by moves, under, medical, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect serious condition at this level.
Intense Serious Condition: Content characterized by seriously, serum, prostate, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect serious condition at this level.
Peak Serious Condition: Content characterized by serious, medical, seriuss, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect serious condition at this level.