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Descriptor English: Medicalization
Descriptor Spanish: Medicalización
Descriptor medicalización
Entry term(s) desmedicalización
despatologización
patologización
sobremedicalización
sobrepatologización
Scope note: Proceso por el cual las situaciones y problemas propios del ser humano pasan a definirse como problemas médicos y, por lo tanto, pasan a ser objeto de estudio, diagnóstico, prevención o tratamiento médicos. Esto puede dar lugar a problemas de salud, médicos, económicos, sociológicos y éticos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicalização
Descriptor French: Médicalisation
Entry term(s): Demedicalization
Depathologization
Medicalizations
Over Medicalization
Over Pathologization
Over-Medicalization
Over-Pathologization
Overmedicalization
Overpathologization
Pathologization
Tree number(s): I01.880.853.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://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.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2013
History Note: 2013
DeCS ID: 55124
Unique ID: D062528
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Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 2012/07/03
Revision Date: 2022/12/15
Medicalization - Preferred
Concept UI M0568535
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.
Preferred term Medicalization
Entry term(s) Medicalizations
Depathologization - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000758433
Preferred term Depathologization
Demedicalization - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000758434
Preferred term Demedicalization
Pathologization - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000758435
Preferred term Pathologization
Overmedicalization - Narrower
Concept UI M000758557
Preferred term Overmedicalization
Entry term(s) Over Medicalization
Over-Medicalization
Over-Pathologization - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000758558
Preferred term Over-Pathologization
Entry term(s) Over Pathologization
Overpathologization



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