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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Perspective
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
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Jeurissen, Patrick P.T.
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description 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 society, neglecting the possible influence of society on medicine. In this perspective, we aim to provide a novel insight into the influence of society and the societal context on medicine, in particularly with regard to medicalisation and overdiagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-50887212016-11-01 Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine van Dijk, Wieteke Faber, Marjan J. Tanke, Marit A.C. Jeurissen, Patrick P.T. Westert, Gert P. Int J Health Policy Manag Perspective 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 society, neglecting the possible influence of society on medicine. In this perspective, we aim to provide a novel insight into the influence of society and the societal context on medicine, in particularly with regard to medicalisation and overdiagnosis. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2016-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5088721/ /pubmed/27801356 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2016.121 Text en © 2016 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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