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Caring for the sick

Synonyms:
Taking care of sickness
Treating illness
Treating sickness
Assisting the sick
Broader:
Healing illness
Assisting
Establishing immediate social help
Narrower:
Treating diseases
Treating infection
Treating brain damage
Ministering to the sick
Caring for cancer patients
Supporting people with AIDS
Undertaking medical research
Caring for children's health
Encouraging ongoing home care
Attending to the disease-prone
Caring for the chronically ill
Improving care for the mentally ill
Constrains:
Caring for health
Facilitated by:
Reporting illness
Equipping mobile hospital
Supporting parents of sick children
Improving care of patients
Problems:
Human disease and disability
Illness
Predisposition to illness
Values:
Care
Illness
Uncaring
Sickness
Organizations:
International Council of Homehelp Services
Subjects:
Medicine → Pathology
Health Care → Care
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being

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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