Anthropologists Joao Biehl is concerned that regional governments in Brazil have been forced to alter their health budgets drastically to accommodate the demand for high-cost medicines like antiretroviral drugs. He calls this phenomenon
A) structural violence
B) embodied inequality
C) the pharmaceuticalization of public health
D) the socialization of medicine

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Joao Biehl refers to the phenomenon where health budgets are altered to prioritize expensive medications as the "pharmaceuticalization of public health," highlighting the focus on pharmaceuticals in healthcare systems.

Anthropologists Joao Biehl Is Concerned That Regional Governments in Brazil