Health Care

Undertreatment

Remedial treatment or preventive procedures of a disease which is done too infrequently or not enough to control disease diagnosis or treatment. Many factors contribute to medical undertreatment including lack of ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES and PATIENT PREFERENCE.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Remedial treatment or preventive procedures of a disease which is done too infrequently or not enough to control disease diagnosis or treatment. Many factors contribute to medical undertreatment including lack of ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES and PATIENT PREFERENCE.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Medical Under-Treatment
  • Medical Undertreatment
  • Under-Treatment
  • Medical Under Treatment
  • Medical Under-Treatments
  • Medical Undertreatments
  • Under Treatment
  • Under-Treatment, Medical
  • Under-Treatments
  • Undertreatment, Medical
  • Undertreatments

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Aspects Covered

5 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2024

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Tree Numbers

  1. N02.421.380.725
  2. N05.300w.150.395.725

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Undertreatment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000097864. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000097864
  2. Undertreatment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124373076