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Unethical practices of health services
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Name(s):
Irresponsible health care services
Incompetent public health officials
Dangerous health programmes
Unfair health policy
Misconduct of public health officers
Corruption in the hospital system
Negligent public health policies
Broader
Unethical practices in the service sector
Narrower
Overcharging by doctors
Abusive institutional care
Massive avoidable ill-health
Prohibitive medical expenses
Uncertain toxicity thresholds
Dehumanization of health care
Misuse of psychiatric diagnosis
Misconduct of medical executives
Unnecessary health system referrals
Denial of rights of medical patients
Violation of medical confidentiality
Refusal to provide medical treatment
Misallocation of resources in health services
Deliberate unbalancing of sex ratio of births
Discrimination in access to sanitation services
Crimes committed in hospitals and health care facilities
Related
Compulsory health care
Cost-conscious managed health care
Abusive treatment of patients in psychiatric hospitals
Denial of the right to procreate to the severely mentally handicapped
Aggravates
Inadequate health services
Fragility of maintaining basic health
Aggravated by
Commercial exploitation of health
Politicization of health standards
Underpayment of government officials
Unethical practice of health professionals
Organization(s)
Global Lawyers and Physicians
Strategy(ies)
Reforming health systems
Regulating public sector with independent body
Reducing public sector corruption
Financing public health interventions with substantial externalities
Abolishing unethical practices of health services
Providing fair health policy
Corrupting hospital system
Identifying dangerous health programmes
Assessing health programmes
Prosecuting misconduct of public health officers
Reference(s)
Jacobson, David and Eric, D: Doctors Are Gods: corruption and unethical practices in the medical profession
Type
(D) Detailed problems