Medicalized Health Care

Understanding the Social Determinants of Health - AAF

https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/understanding-the-social-determinants-of-health/

The United States spends significantly more on health care than other developed countries yet has worse health outcomes, and one possible reason is its “medicalized” approach to health care: The U.S. health care system focuses on …

Medicalization: Scientific Progress or Disease ... - NYU …

https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/education/high-school-bioethics-project/learning-scenarios/medicalization-ethics

Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, Economic, and …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicalizing-obesity-individual-economic-and-medical-consequences/2011-12

Access to adequate medical treatment for patients must acknowledge that this biological illness is widespread, that …

How to distinguish medicalization from over-medicalization?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29951940/

The article: (i) identifies various consequences of both well-founded medicalization and over-medicalization; (ii) demonstrates that the issue of defining appropriate limits of medicine …