A pressing concern in contemporary health policy is whether the medical profession's
mandate to take care of clients has been undermined by the influx of money into health care …

Patient-centered care is an important aspect of high-quality care. Health informatics,
particularly advances in technology, has the potential to facilitate, or detract from, patient …

Importance Manufacturers, companies, and health care professionals and organizations use
an array of promotional activities to sell and increase market share of their products and …

Media, from television to the “new media”(including cell phones, iPads, and social media),
are a dominant force in children's lives. Although television is still the predominant medium …

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) has grown rapidly during the past
several decades and is now the most prominent type of health communication that the public …

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) has sparked much controversy and undergone
dramatic changes in its brief history. Debates over appropriate health policies regarding …

Implications Because hundreds of millions of individuals use the Internet for health
information, it is not surprising that companies have moved into this area of marketing using …

Background The illicit use of prescription stimulants (IUPS) has emerged as a high-risk
behavior of the 21st century college student. As the study of IUPS is relatively new, we …

Medicalization is frequently defined as a process by which some non-medical aspects of
human life become to be considered as medical problems. Overdiagnosis, on the other …

Background: Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), linked to inappropriate medication use
and higher health care expenditures, is the fastest growing form of pharmaceutical …