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The categories of disease are: physical, mental, social, chronic, infectious, degenerate, inherited, self-inflicted and deficiency.
Can you give me one or more examples of each?
Answer:
physical - broken bone
mental - schizophrenia
social - social anxiety disorder
chronic - diabetes
infectious - the common cold
degenerative - degenerative disc disease in the spine
inherited - muscular dystrophy
self-inflicted - suicide
deficiency - scurvy (vitamin C deficiency)
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