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overmedicalization

overmedicalization noun: excessive medicalization.

Noun

overmedicalization (uncountable)

  1. Excessive medicalization.
    • Near-synonyms: disease mongering, pathologization
    • The difficult choice of "not doing": Comment on "Quaternary prevention, an answer of family doctors to overmedicalization".2015 June 2, Giorgio Visentin, “The Difficult Choice of "Not Doing"”, in International Journal of Health Policy and Management, volume 4, →DOI

Synonyms of overmedicalization

Origin of overmedicalization

From over- + medicalization.

Questions about overmedicalization

What does overmedicalization mean?
Overmedicalization means excessive medicalization.
What part of speech is overmedicalization?
Overmedicalization is a noun.

Words near overmedicalization in the dictionary

  1. overmeddled
  2. overmeddles
  3. overmeddling
  4. overmedicalisation
  5. overmedicalisations
  6. overmedicalization
  7. overmedicalize
  8. overmedicalized
  9. overmedicalizes
  10. overmedicalizing
  11. overmedicate

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