Crowdsourced backend of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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Coeliac disease
Celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune condition in which the body’s reaction to the protein...
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Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths in women women and has the highest mortality...
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Inhaling of solvents and anaesthetic drugs
Inhalants are a diverse group of chemicals which produce psychoactive (mind altering) vapours;...
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Wear
Wear is the removal of material from a solid surface as the result of mechanical action exerted...
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Disinformation
Disinformation is to communications what a diversion is to a military manoeuvre. It is...
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Chronic pelvic pain
Chronic pelvic pain may derive from a variety of sources, including infection and displacement...
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Spina bifida
Spina bifida (aperta) is often used as an inclusive name for various conditions associated with...
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Political assassination
A person may be assassinated for what he represents politically, when a government or any...
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Consumption of alcohol
The use and misuse of alcohol as a beverage is complicated by the particular significance which...
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Inadequate infrastructure
In some countries basic infrastructure is lacking. Elsewhere, the infrastructure is inadequate...
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Sexual discrimination
Sexual roles tend to be fixed by most societies, but in different ways. Most 'western'...
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Anti-communism
Zealous activity to halt or reverse the spread of communism, derived from profound fear and a...
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Inadequate waste incineration
Burning as a method of domestic waste disposal takes place in many countries. Combustible...
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Road traffic accidents
The mortality and morbidity rates from road traffic accidents are increasing annually in nearly...
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Ebola haemorrhagic fever
The Ebola virus spreads through close contact with blood or bodily fluids, even those of corpses...
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive and incurable disease of the central nervous...
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Abusive distribution of political patronage
Patronage has developed from the distribution of largesse in the form of minor gifts, to the...
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Endangered forests
Illegal logging, forest fires and bad forest management pose a serious threat to the world's...
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Surface to surface missiles
The development, sale and use of ballistic missiles with ranges from less than a hundred...
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Age-related memory loss
Normal age-related memory loss is likely to involve the hippocampus, a small structure in the...
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Military manoeuvres in sensitive border areas
From a military point of view it is important to exercise forces in the terrain where they will...
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Central core disease
First described in 1956, central core disease is a slowly progressive disease of voluntary...
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Radioactive fallout
Nuclear explosions, whether for military or peaceful purposes, and explosions involving nuclear...
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Discrimination against women in religion
Discrimination against women in religious doctrines and in the practice of religion (also in the...
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Toxic metal pollutants
Heavy metals is a general term covering potentially toxic metals such as arsenic, cadmium,...
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Ovarian cysts
Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled pockets or sacs within or on the surface of an ovary. They are...
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Cerebral paralysis
Cerebral palsy is the medical term covering a whole group of neurological conditions. These...
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Thyroid nodule
Thyroid nodules are lumps which commonly arise within an otherwise normal thyroid gland. They...
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Health hazards of aluminium
While it is a common ingredient in the earth’s crust, aluminium is bound mostly to silica in...
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Theft of vehicles
Virtually every type of vehicle, mechanical, motorized, or otherwise powered, has been and still...
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Pneumonia
The disease may be caused by a virus, by fungi, or by one of hundreds of strains of bacteria. ...
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Insecurity of employment
When employees are not certain of the security of their positions, the whole economy suffers....
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Unprotected migrant workers
In the wake of the failure, or unwillingness, of state attempts to control migratory flows,...
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