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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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Medical emergencies in medical imaging [PDF]
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2012 Sending inpatients to the medical imaging department is sometimes tantamount to discharging them from hospital for hours at a time. Consider, for example, a patient with an unexplained acute abdomen where an urgent CT scan is indicated. Patient transport, logistical delays and the procedure itself may lead to gaps in monitoring vital signs, providing ...
John A, Staples, Donald A, Redelmeier
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Obstetric Violence in Spain (Part II): Interventionism and Medicalization during Birth
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Background: obstetric violence can partially be represented by the high number of interventions and medicalization rates during the birthing process. The objective of the present study was to determine the interventionism and medicalization levels during
Desirée Mena-Tudela +5 more
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Effectiveness of a On-Site Medicalization Program for Nursing Homes with COVID-19 Outbreaks
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2020 Background Nursing homes are highly vulnerable to the occurrence of COVID-19 outbreaks, which result in high lethality rates. Most of them are not prepared to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Methods A coordinated on-site medicalization program (MP) in response to a
M. Bernabeu-Wittel +12 more
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Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2020 This study analyzes the meanings attributed to the concept of the medicalization of childbirth from a narrative review of the literature in national journals published between 2000 and 2017.
Lucia Regina de Azevedo Nicida +3 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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PLoS ONE, 2020 Although female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has declined, it is pervasive albeit changing form among communities in Kenya. Transformation of FGM/C include medicalization although poorly understood has increased undermining abandonment efforts for ...
Samuel Kimani +3 more
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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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The Psychiatrization of Poverty: Rethinking the Mental Health-Poverty Nexus [PDF]
, 2015 The positive association between ‘mental illness’ and poverty is one of the most well established in psychiatric epidemiology. Yet, there is little conclusive evidence about the nature of this relationship. Generally, explanations revolve around the idea
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Making psychedelics into medicines: The politics and paradoxes of medicalization
Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019 This commentary considers efforts to turn psychedelics into medications that can be administered through healthcare systems as examples of “medicalization.” I draw on ethnographic research both inside and outside of university-based clinical trials from ...
Tehseen Noorani
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