Menopausal and postmenopausal women are a targeted consumer group in the promotion of hormone drugs. The marketing of these pharmaceutical products aims directly at prescribing medical professionals and indirectly at women. The promotion seems intended to creating a collective consciousness that women over 40 need medical and pharmacological treatment.
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Ingar Palmlund (1997) studied this question.
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