To What Extent is McDonaldization Detrimental to Our Society?

What and How Is the Right to Children's Health in Iranian Society

Background and aim: The present study seeks to study the areas that define the right of the child to health in Iran and the expression of what and how this right. Method: this regard, with qualitative approach and thematic research method, content analysis and content analysis interviewed experts and identified four key determinants of childrenchr('39')s right to health in Iran. then four area...

What is our contract with society?

I recently interviewed a young woman for a summer job in our division who had just graduated from college and was preparing applications for medical school. Partly to enhance her medical school applications, but mostly because of her own inner beliefs, she had worked part-time at a number of places over the past few years that dealt directly with attempts to correct some of the problems in our ...

Visiting Sick People: Is It Really Detrimental to Our Health?

Intuitively, keeping ones distance from a source of infection would appear to be the best way to limit the occurrence of disease. However, this overlooks the importance of repeated infections in maintaining efficient immune defenses. When acquired immunity has partly waned, re-exposure to the pathogenic agent may lead to mild disease that boosts the immune system. This prevents the total loss o...

Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine

The concept of overdiagnosis is a dominant topic in medical literature and discussions. In research that targets overdiagnosis, medicalisation is often presented as the societal and individual burden of unnecessary medical expansion. In this way, the focus lies on the influence of medicine on society, neglecting the possible influence of society on medicine. In this perspective, we aim to provi...

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