Terveydentilaan

Terveydentilaan is the illative form of the Finnish noun terveydentila, which denotes a person’s health status or overall state of health. The base noun terveydentila is commonly used in medical, welfare, and administrative contexts to describe physical health, mental well-being, and functional capacity at a given time. The illative form terveydentilaan expresses movement into or reference to that state and is used in sentences that describe entering, changing toward, or considering a health status in a particular context.

In practice, terveydentilaan appears in Finnish texts when a clause requires the illative case, for example in phrases such as ‘terveydentilaan liittyvät arviot’ (assessments related to health status) or ‘potilaan terveydentilaan vaikuttavat tekijät’ (factors affecting the patient’s health status). However, in everyday speech the simpler noun terveydentila is more common for naming the concept, while terveydentilaan is found mainly in more formal, medical, or administrative expressions.

Usage and scope: the concept of health status includes physical, mental, and functional aspects and is central to health assessments, disability determinations, care needs, and resource allocation in public health systems. Terveydentilaan is a grammatical form rather than a separate concept, and its appropriateness depends on the syntactic needs of a sentence.

See also: terveydentila, terveys, terveydentilaan related phrases, sosiaaliturva, terveydenhuolto.