Disease mongering
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Disease mongering is a pejorative term for the practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses, and promoting public awareness of such, in order to expand the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments, which may include pharmaceutical companies, physicians, and other professional or consumer organizations.
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See also
- Disease
- Inverse benefit law
- Medicalization
- Pharmaceutical company
- Pharmaceutical marketing
- Quaternary prevention
- Schooliosis
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