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1
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Prevalence =

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Incidence X Duration

2
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Iatrogenesis

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Physician causing harm

3
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Clinical iatrogenesis

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patients harmed by ineffective, toxic & unsafe treatments

4
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Cultural iatrogenesis

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destruction of traditional ways of dealing with death, pain & sickness

5
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Social iatrogenesis

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‘medicalisation of life’

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