This goes beyond using medical interventions to recover health affected by diseases or conditions, and also entails the biomedicalization of prevention and promotion through the internalization of the moral mandate to remain healthy and exerts practices of health surveillance at the individual level.Being healthy in the context of biomedicalization means that it is an individual responsibility to control potential diseases and conditions with analytical laboratory, genetic or other tests and to consume drugs, medical devices and other biotechnological products and services.
Estar saludable en el contexto de la biomedicalización significa que es una responsabilidad individual controlarse de potenciales enfermedades y padecimientos con exámenes de laboratorio, genéticos u otros, y consumiendo medicamentos, dispositivos médicos y otros productos biotecnológicos y servicios.