These guidelines take potential side effects, medicalization for self-limiting conditions, increasing resistance to respiratory pathogens, and costs of unnecessary antibiotic treatment into account [ 6- 9].
While the use of psychotropics confers many benefits and is sometimes life-saving, it is also associated with problems of dependency, medicalization and side-effects.
There are also fears about cost, increased workload, and adherence to treatment, as well as concerns about medicalization and adverse effects on patient health behaviours 4. The results from our study should also be considered in light of national interest and uncertainty about screening and early treatment for diabetes in Denmark.
Medicalization, ie when non-medical problems become medical issues also strengthens the sick role.
Pervasive commoditisation and medicalization are the natural result of such pressures.
Medicalization not only violates medical ethics, it also risks legitimizing the practice and giving the impression it is without health consequences.
How do advocacy groups, civil society, and/or industry reinforce, benefit, or challenge the medicalization of the global health issue?
We also compared the occurrence of negative perinatal outcomes in the two models of care as possible side effects of the reduction of pregnancy medicalization.
Buffel V, Beckfield J, Bracke P. The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization: A Comparative Approach to Medicalizing Unemployment.
Concepts like sanitary reform and disease prevention that enjoyed more currency earlier in our history have been supplanted by a medical ethic that promotes individualism and medicalization.
