Table 1.

Synonyms, terminologies and factors of medicalisation [12], [13], [14], [15].

Various terms used for medicalisation	•Over diagnosis – excessive or undue application of medicine. •Disease mongering – convincing healthy people that they are sick and in need of medicines. •Problematisation
Terminologies which are associated with medicalisation	•Bio-medicalisation •Healthicisation •Pharmaceuticalisation •Biosocialisation •Biotechnology (pharmaceuticals and genetics), •Consumerism (patients challenging medical authority) and •Managed care (medical encounter cost-controls) •Primary prevention •Immunisation •Lowering of treatment thresholds •Lifestyle medication
Factors leading to medicalisation	•Medical imperialism •Inter and intra-professional rivalry •Capitalism •Patriarchy •Technocracy •Secularisation •Social control •Lifestyle drugs •Patients to medical consumers •Bio-medical Practices •Identities (and actors): medicalisation increases when (individual or collective) biomedical actors and identities become more prevalent, powerful or salient in addressing social problems