Road to Demedicalization- Need of Hour in Public Health
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Medicalization is the process whereby previously non-medical aspects of life are seen in medical terms, usually as disorders or illnesses. It is based on the biomedical model of disease, which sees behaviors, conditions or illnesses as a direct result of malfunctions within the human body. It is akin to 'a pill for every ill' concept. Even the normal life events like birth and death, biological processes like aging, childbirth, menstruation and common human problems like learning and sexual difficulties have been medicalized. This decreases innate coping ability of human beings. However, there is no evidence that there is any direct relation between health status of people and the so called progress of medicine. Health is conceptualized as a direct result of relation between mind and body. Demedicalization is the process by which things are organized or modified in a way that condition or life process under medical jurisdiction is considered as no longer a medical problem. It is the social process that normalizes sick behavior. It focuses on building internal locus of control and emphasizes more on prevention and non–medicinal approach. This concept needs to be revived. This approach will not only help patients, doctors but also the hospitals in the long run.
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Sonika Raj, Amarjeet Singh
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