International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Define and Conquer: How Semantics Foster Progress; A Response to Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Wieteke van Dijk 1
Marjan J. Faber 2
Marit A.C. Tanke 1
Patrick P.T. Jeurissen 1
Gert P. Westert 2
1 Celsus Academy for Sustainable Healthcare, and Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2 Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10.15171/ijhpm.2017.116
Keywords
Medicalisation
Overdiagnosis
Society
Subjects

The main message of our paper “Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: what society does to Medicine” was: “instead of solely a result of medicine, medicalisation and overdiagnosis consist of social cultural processes that take place both in and outside medicine.”1... (Read more...)

  1. Van Dijk W, Faber M, Tanke M, Jeurissen P, Westert G. Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2016 Aug 31;5(11):619-622. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2016.121
  2. Carter SM. Overdiagnosis: an important issue that demands rigour and precision. Comment on “Medicalisation and overdiagnosis: what society does to medicine.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017; Forthcoming.
  3. Hofmann B. On the social construction of overdiagnosis. Comment on “Medicalisation and overdiagnosis: what society does to medicine.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017; Forthcoming.
  4. Wardrope A. Mistaking the Map for the Territory: What Society Does With Medicine. Comment on “medicalisation and overdiagnosis: what society does to medicine.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017; Forthcoming.
  5. Conrad P. The shifting engines of medicalization. J Health Soc Behav. 2005;46:3-14.
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 6, Issue 11
2017
Pages 681-682

  • Received Date 20 April 2017
  • Revised Date 10 May 2017
  • Accepted Date 01 May 2017
  • First Published Date 01 November 2017
  • Published Date 01 November 2017