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Excessive use of resources on expensive medical techniques

Other Names:
Prohibitive cost of high technology medical cures
Discriminatory use of medical resources to heal the privileged
Broader Problems:
Excessive costs
Proliferation of technology
Prohibitive medical expenses
Waste of resources
Inequitable use of medical resources
Inappropriate emphasis on prestige technology
Narrower Problems:
Genetic surgery
Reduced By:
Ignorance of modern medical techniques
Strategies:
Reviewing advances in medical technology
Requiring that expertise meet needs
Giving privileges
Equalizing privileges
Removing privileges
Reducing cost of high technology medical cures
Providing high technology medical cures
Reducing discriminatory use of medical resources to heal the privileged
Using expensive medical treatments
Subject(s):
Resources → Resources
Medicine → Medicine
Commerce → Finance
Health Care → Health
Health Care → Treatment
Economics → Resource utilization
Technology → Technology
Technology → Technical
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-beingGOAL 7: Affordable and Clean EnergyGOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthGOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
19.05.1999 – 00:00 CEST

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
 

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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