Medicalization of global health 2: the medicalization of global mental health [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Once an orphan field, ‘global mental health’ now has wide acknowledgement and prominence on the global health agenda. Increased recognition draws needed attention to individual suffering and the population impacts, but medicalizing global mental health ...
Jocalyn Clark
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Life medicalization and the recent appearance of “pharmaceuticalization” [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2018 Medicalization is a concern to which we have been paying attention intermittently for the past half century. However, it is increasingly difficult to look away from its multiple and ubiquitous manifestations, and therefore there is an increasingly ...
Ricard Meneu
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The “treatment gap” in global mental health reconsidered: sociotherapy for collective trauma in Rwanda [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The “treatment gap” (TG) for mental disorders refers to the difference that exists between the number of people who need care and those who receive care. The concept is strongly promoted by the World Health Organization and widely used in the
Gishoma, Darius +6 more
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Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2018 Medical robotics encompasses surgical, therapeutic and rehabilitative devices that are changing medicine and healthcare. Although the field of medical robotics predates Intuitive’s da Vinci by more than a decade, it was the clinical and commercial achievements of that system that brought medical robotics to widespread patient and public attention.
Elson, DS +4 more
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Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) : learning from (policy) experiences across countries [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Barrett, Hazel +4 more
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The institutional foundations of medicalization : a cross-national analysis of mental health and unemployment [PDF]
, 2017 In this study, we question (1) whether the relationship between unemployment and mental healthcare use, controlling for mental health status, varies across European countries and (2) whether these differences are patterned by a combination of ...
Beckfield, Jason +2 more
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Towards a rhizomatic perspective of the medicalized Body? A Review on Medicalization and Gender
methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2019 Medicalization has been one of the most important topics for feminist agenda and gender studies. During the second wave of feminism, when sexual and reproductive rights were the top concerns for women, is exactly when the studies of medicalization ...
Adriane Roso
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Politeja, 2017 Towards Tchernobyl. Is Postmemory a Driving Force for Medicalization or Vice Versa? The article poses a question about relations between practices of medicalization and postmemory ones.
Marta Hoffmann
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Employment status and mental health care use in times of economic contraction: a repeated cross-sectional study in Europe, using a three-level model [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: Framed within the recent economic crisis, in this study we investigate the medical mental health care use of the unemployed compared with that of the employed in Europe, and whether the relationship between employment status and mental ...
Bracke, Piet +2 more
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The impact of medicalization on patient’s human rights
Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética, 2018 The process of medicalization has an unquestionable impact on everyday life, particularly on the populations of the countries that are large consumer markets of medicines and health resources. The present study consists of theoretical research which aims
Aline Albuquerque Albuquerque
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