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    Supports→Overemphasis on genetic or molecular level explanations of disease is detrimental to patients

    When genetic explanations dominate clinical framing, physicians measurably underinvest in social determinants of health interventions that produce superior population-level outcomes.

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    Clinical framing(as used in describing approaches to problems)
    A way of looking at something as if it's a medical or scientific problem that can be studied objectively from the outside, without considering personal or emotional factors.
    Social determinants of health(as used in public health and ethics)
    The conditions where people are born, grow up, work, and live—like access to quality schools, safe neighborhoods, and job opportunities—that affect how healthy they are.
    genetic explanations(in philosophy of medicine and causation)
    The idea that a disease or health problem is caused primarily by a person's genes or DNA rather than by their lifestyle, environment, or circumstances.
    population-level outcomes(in philosophy of public health and ethics)
    Results or effects that apply to large groups of people in a community or society, rather than just individual patients.

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    underinvest(in discussions of allocation and priorities)
    To spend less time, money, or resources on something than would be beneficial or optimal.

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