1. World problems
  2. Intractable diseases

Intractable diseases

  • Incurable diseases

Nature

Includes both diseases of unknown aetiology, with no established therapeutic remedies (and with the possibility of sequelae), and chronic diseases, which put a heavy social and economic burden on both the patient and the relatives. The definition may be narrowed to include only serious mental and physical disorders (progressive muscular atrophy and dystropy, etc), but may be extended to include: Behcet's disease, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and others.

Broader

Wicked problems
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Disease
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Narrower

Aggravates

Fear of death
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Aggravated by

Strategy

Value

Intractability
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Disease
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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems
Subject
Content quality
Presentable
 Presentable
Language
English
Last update
Oct 4, 2020