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Unethical practices of health services
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
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 Problems:
Unethical practices in the service sector
Narrower Problems:
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 Problems:
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
Strategies:
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
Organizations:
Global Lawyers and Physicians
References:
Jacobson, David and Eric, D: Doctors Are Gods: corruption and unethical practices in the medical profession
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Government
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Officials
Government
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Public
Health Care
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Care
Health Care
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Health
Health Care
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Hospitals
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Societal Problems
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Irresponsibility
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Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems
Date of last update
03.06.2019 – 18:12 CEST