[Medicalization I. 'Disease labeling: All business.']

[Medicalization I. 'Disease labeling: All business.']
Aten Primaria. 2013 Sep 19;
Authors: Cerecedo Pérez MJ, Tovar Bobo M, Rozadilla Arias A
Abstract
Western societies have displaced problems from the subjective and social fields over to medicine, and the search for the perfect health has become an obsession and a pathogenic predominant factor. Paradoxically, the number of ilnesses and sick people arises proportionally with health levels. We now tend to add «disease labels» in daily clinical practice to behaviors and events that are nothing but elements of character or even healthy reactions to laboral and familial conflicts or mourning. In this article, we analyze the factors that determine this «medicalization» process and its consequences, with a particular emphasis in the iatrogenesis of unnecessary medical interventions.
PMID: 24055130 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Atencion Primaria - September 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Authors: Cerecedo Pérez MJ, Tovar Bobo M, Rozadilla Arias A Tags: Aten Primaria Source Type: research