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Problem
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:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
19.05.1999 – 00:00 CEST