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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Unnecessary medical procedures

Unnecessary medical procedures

Unpresentable

Narrower

Unnecessary surgery
Presentable

Aggravated by

Overdiagnosis of disease
Presentable
Münchausen syndrome
Presentable
Medical treatment for non-medical conditions
Presentable
Benign neoplasm of breast
Unpresentable
Intraepithelial neoplastic hyperplasia of prostate (HG-PIN)
Yet to rate
Exploitation of patient obsession
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
D7NID
226695
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/unnecessary-medical-procedures
Last update
Oct 4, 2020