Overdiagnosis: An Important Issue That Demands Rigour and Precision Comment on "Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine"
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On the Social Construction of Overdiagnosis; Comment on “Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine”
In an interesting article Wieteke van Dijk and colleagues argue that societal developments and values influence the practice of medicine, and thus can result in both medicalisation and overdiagnosis. They provide a convincing argument that overdiagnosis emerges in a social context and that it has socially constructed implications. However, they fail to show that overdiagnosis per se is socially...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2322-5939
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.24