Health Management Technology February 27, 2018
The escalating influence of modern biomedical conceptions of health and illness—increasingly going beyond traditional medical illness to “explain” behavioral problems and general societal ills—now dominate developed nations’ healthcare delivery. A new study finds that this expanding “medical industrial complex” is not straightforwardly responsible for improved life expectancy and mortality in first-world nations.
Medical expansion is multidimensional and represented by expansions in three major components of the healthcare system during the last half century: Caregiver/physician professionalization/specialization, medical infrastructure investment, and growth of the pharmaceutical industry.
The study published in the March Journal of Health and Social Behavior, a peer-reviewed publication, finds—through the examination of multiple life expectancy indices and mortality data—that the success of this “medical expansion” in advancing public health...
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