Medical Strikes

This article seeks to answer the paradoxical pattern that has been suggested in the literature of doctor strikes. The research question is whether it is true that when health workers go on strike, levels of mortality stays the same or decreases? The author conducted a systematic review of the literature that addresses the link between physician strikes and the influence it has on mortality rates. This is the only question of this article.
Q2: What is the answer to this research question?
In order to answer this question the author identified 7 articles out of 156 in the last 40 years that assessed mortality rates and their changes during five strikes around the world. The strikes lasted between 9 days and 17 weeks. Not a single strike reported

The main research question seeks to tackle what contribution (increasing medicalization) has had on the issue of increasing health costs? Another research question in this article seeks to define medicalization, while presenting a strategy for estimating the cost burden of medicalization.
Q2: What is the answer to this research question?
To answer the question of defining medicalization, it is the process by which non-medical issues become defined and treated as if they were medical issues. Examples include alcoholism, post stress disorder (PTSD), erectile dysfunction (ED), amongst others. To answer the research question in tackling the issue of increasing health costs, the authors found twelve conditions that they put together that have cost. However two conditions (uncomplicated pregnancy and body image services) alone have made up almost half of the $77.1 billion health costs.
Q3: Why is this paper important [for our course, for the discipline, for

Having a nose job will not help make you a healthier individual, yet it is still considered as a medical procedure. Another example is in regards to alcoholism where the treatment includes few physicians, while they play a central role in other issues such as gastric bypass. Lastly, medicalization is bi-directional in the sense that there has been an overwhelming trend towards increasing medical categories and interventions such as the decriminalization of homosexuals. This paper is also important for policy making as it helps policy makers look at how two non-health issues (uncomplicated pregnancy and body image services) have made up more than half of the $77.1 billion health costs, which was roughly 4% of the overall total domestic expenditures on health