Ill-defined health conditions
- Non-conclusive symptoms of disease
- Mysterious organic damage
- Non-specific bodily ailments
- Signs of disharmony in the body
- Chronic health irritations
- Unresolved ill health
Incidence
The highest costing disease category in the USA are ill-defined health conditions.
Claim
Some ailments by their nature are difficult to diagnose, for example diagnoses of exclusion, and new strains of re-emerging diseases; for example, idiopathic anaphylaxis is a diagnosis of exclusion; a physician must eliminate all other known causes of anaphylactic attack before labelling it idiopathic.
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SDG
Metadata
Database
World problems
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems
Subject
Fundamental sciences » Organic chemical compounds
Health care » Health
Medicine » Diagnosis
Medicine » Pathology
Medicine » Physiology
Research, standards » Signs and labels
Societal problems » Destruction
Content quality
Presentable
Language
English
Last update
Dec 1, 2023