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Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine

The concept of overdiagnosis is a dominant topic in medical literature and discussions. In research that targets overdiagnosis, medicalisation is often presented as the societal and individual burden of unnecessary medical expansion. In this way, the focus lies on the influence of medicine on societ...

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Autores principales: van Dijk, Wieteke, Faber, Marjan J., Tanke, Marit A.C., Jeurissen, Patrick P.T., Westert, Gert P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5088721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27801356
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2016.121