strategy
Improving diagnostic techniques to prevent disease
Synonyms:
Reducing medical misdiagnosis Context:
A study in Australia concluded that about 13 percent of medical errors occurred as a result of medical misdiagnosis. Medical misdiagnosis prevents patients being treated correctly, which may lead to the death of a patient. Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 recommends developing improved diagnostic techniques and vaccines for the prevention and spread of disease and for rapid assessment of toxins or infectious organisms in products for human use or livestock feed.
Broader:
Saving lives Facilitates:
Developing agricultural biotechnology Values:
Disease Subjects:
Medicine → Medicine Medicine → Pathology
Medicine → Diagnosis
Societal Problems → Prevention
Technology → Technical
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
