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EPISODE · Sep 26, 2014 · 13 MIN

Are we overmedicalising global health?

from Medicine and Science from The BMJ · host The BMJ

Jocalyn Clarke, executive editor at icdd,b, argues the solutions proposed to improve global health are too focused on the medical, and fail to tackle the underlying socioeconomic factors which will undermine those efforts. Read her full analysis of the situation: http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5457

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