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The Perils of Medicalization for Population Health and Health Equity.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Milbank quarterly [Milbank Q] 2023 Apr; Vol. 101 (S1), pp. 61-82.
Abstract: Policy Points Medicalization is a historical process by which personal, behavioral, and social issues are increasingly viewed through a biomedical lens and "diagnosed and treated" as individual pathologies and problems by medical authorities. Medicaliz...
The need for appropriate language in the debate on medicalisation of pregnancy.
Publication Type: Editorial & Opinion
Source(s): Lancet (London, England) [Lancet] 2023 Mar 11; Vol. 401 (10379), pp. 818-819.
Medicalization and being 'different'.
Publication Type: Editorial & Opinion
Source(s): Developmental medicine and child neurology [Dev Med Child Neurol] 2023 Mar; Vol. 65 (3), pp. 437. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 09.
Individual and country-level variables associated with the medicalization of birth: Multilevel analyses of IMAgiNE EURO data from 15 countries in the WHO European region.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics [Int J Gynaecol Obstet] 2022 Dec; Vol. 159 Suppl 1, pp. 9-21.
Abstract: Objective: To investigate potential associations between individual and country-level factors and medicalization of birth in 15 European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: Online anonymous survey of women who gave birth in 2020-2021. Multi...
Agency through medicalization: Ghanaian children navigating illness, medicine and adult resistance.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2022 Dec; Vol. 315, pp. 115504. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 08.
Abstract: Medicalization in the Global North assumes that bottom-up medicalization is driven by increasing consumer power, risk avoidance among professionals, or emancipation. Building on ethnographic work of the first author, this article aimed to explore the e...
Drivers of medicalization in the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique [Can J Public Health] 2022 Oct; Vol. 113 (5), pp. 743-748. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 15.
Abstract: The new Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines frame higher body weight as a chronic, relapsing disease requiring comprehensive medical treatment pathways. In this commentary, we will demonstrate how a process called pharmaceuticalization ...
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Journal of medicine and philosophy [J Med Philos] 2022 Dec 23; Vol. 47 (6), pp. 770-783.
Abstract: In the philosophical debate on aging, it is common to raise the question of the theoretical definition of aging in terms of its possible characterization as a disease. Understanding aging as a disease seems to imply its medicalization, which has import...
Evaluation of the relevance of interhospital transfer medicalization in the suspicion of foreign body aspiration in children.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie [Arch Pediatr] 2022 Nov; Vol. 29 (8), pp. 615-619. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 31.
Abstract: Introduction: Foreign body aspiration in preschool children is a common and potentially fatal event. Diagnostic confirmation requires tracheobronchoscopy. The current medical care in West Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur (PACA) is based on an inter-hospital ...
Managing the moral expansion of medicine.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): BMC medical ethics [BMC Med Ethics] 2022 Sep 22; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 97. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 22.
Abstract: Science and technology have vastly expanded the realm of medicine. The numbers of and knowledge about diseases has greatly increased, and we can help more people in many more ways than ever before. At the same time, the extensive expansion has also aug...