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MeSH Heading: Medicalization
Tree Number(s): I01.880.853.250
Unique ID: D062528
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D062528
Scope Note: The process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined as medical conditions, and so become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. This may result in health, medical, economic, sociological, and ethical issues.
Entry Term(s): Demedicalization; Depathologization; Over Medicalization; Over Pathologization; Over-Medicalization; Over-Pathologization; Overmedicalization; Overpathologization; Pathologization
See Also: Overdiagnosis
Public MeSH Note: 2013
History Note: 2013
Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 2012/07/03
Revision Date: 2022/12/15

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