Crowdsourced backend of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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Abuse of tourism for sexual purposes
Tourism for the purpose of casual homosexual or heterosexual encounters, particularly in the...
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Damage to goods
The retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer and customer lose from having merchandise damaged. Goods can... -
Cirrhosis of the liver
Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic progressive disease involving scarring and destruction of the... -
Atrial fibrillation
The commonest form of persistent irregularity of the heart's action, accounting for about one-...
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Inappropriate modernization of agriculture
Through the industrialization of agriculture, the productivity per unit of land and per farmer...
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Faltering structural adjustment in the world economy
The decade of the 1970s witnessed a retardation of structural adjustment at a time when the need...
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Antimicrobial drug resistance
Many diseases are caused by pathogenic bacteria and other microbes. These diseases include...
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Lack of appreciation of cultural differences
The tendency to gloss over or ignore cultural differences gives rise to inadequate national and...
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Crack
"Crack" is the street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a... -
Pneumocystis
This is an infection of the lung caused by Pneumocystis carinii. The organism is a...
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Leishmaniasis
The leishmaniases are infections involving primarily the skin, mucous membranes, and certain...
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Hydrocele
A collection of fluid connected with the testicle or sperm duct cord, due to some inflammation of... -
Toxocariasis
Toxocariasis is a disease of dogs which can cause a chronic but usually mild infection in humans.... -
Children of alcoholics
Children of alcoholic parents often display abnormal social behaviour. One in four become...
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Inadequate primary health care
While everyday rural life in Third World countries implies twelve or more hours of hard physical... -
Nudism
Nudism is the cult of sexually unsegregated nakedness in developed countries. It is thought to...
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Inappropriate transport policy
Governmental policies are failing to keep pace with the growth in traffic which is adding to the...
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Environmental hazards of coal energy
Environmental problems caused by coal energy may be regarded in terms of various components: mining... -
Corporal punishment in schools
Schools may condone or even encourage the physical punishment of students. Hitting a child,...
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Rosacea
Rosacea is a chronic inflammatory condition in which flushing of the skin in the areas of the... -
Alveolar hydatid disease
This is a very serious form of echinococcosis. The disease is transmitted to man through infected... -
White-collar crime
Crimes committed by businessmen, politicians and government employees are common to both developed... -
Revolution
A foundational change or reversal in direction of a social entity either in thinking such as a...
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Lack of medical records
Institutions responsible for employing personnel under conditions which may later prove to be... -
Excessive consumption of sugar
Sugar consumption may be a public health danger, particularly for infants and children who...
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Discrimination against women in sports
The very traits that set women apart as successful athletes: an aggressively competitive nature and... -
Denial of rights to students
Students can be denied the right to accessible education, the right to organize themselves at all... -
Crime
Crime, on the increase throughout the world, includes both personal attacks (assaults, theft,...
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Peritonitis
Peritonitis means means irritation of the abdominal lining, or peritoneum. Movement causes the... -
Leprosy
Leprosy is a chronic communicable disease which affects particularly the nerves, the skin and...
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Underdevelopment of countries
Underdevelopment occurs when some resources are not used to their full socio-economic potential,... -
Informers
It is accepted that a person with knowledge that a crime, or some other form of abuse, has been...
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Competitiveness in education
Children who wish to succeed in academe - or whose parents wish them to do so – may need to...
The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential was initiated in 1972 following a collaboration between two international non-profits, the Union of International Associations (UIA) and Mankind 2000. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems humanity is confronted with, as well as the challenges such problems pose to societies' values, development strategies and concept formation.
The online version of the resource is currently undergoing significant transformation, and the publishing model is changing in exciting new ways. The main points are:
- Whilst the above NGOs remain equal copyright holders of the data, it is becoming possible for partners to re-publish any content on presentation sites under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA)
- Content of the database is being made centrally editable at edit.ewphp.org — to allow content changes on this site to propagate to any and all presentation sites
Please feel free to get in touch if you want to know more about the project, the ongoing transformation, or if you aspire to join the volunteer team as a database editor, presentation site developer or any other skill you feel might benefit the project!
News
- March 2016: An initial version of an API that allows retrieval and licensed re-use of the data is ready at demo.ewphp.org. We are currently working with selected developers, and a first public implementation of the API is taking shape as well. News about launch of both will follow soon!
- June 2015: Read the paper and presentation "Loop Mining in the Encyclopedia of World Problems" prepared for the 17th International Futures Conference "Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems" in Turku, Finland, 11-12. June 2015 — www.futuresconference.fi/2015