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Descriptor English: Organ Trafficking
Descriptor Spanish: Tráfico de Órganos
Descriptor tráfico de órganos
Scope note: Actividad delictiva que se produce en tres grandes categorías. Primera, casos en los que traficantes fuerzan o engañan a las víctimas para que les den un órgano. Segunda, hay casos en los que las víctimas de foro formal acuerdan vender un órgano y son engañadas porque no se les paga por el órgano entregado o reciben una menor cuantía del precio prometido. Tercera, las personas vulnerables son tratadas de una dolencia, que puede o no coexistir y acto seguido se retiran órganos sin el conocimiento de la víctima.
Descriptor Portuguese: Tráfico de Órgãos
Descriptor French: Trafic d'organes
Entry term(s): Organ Traffickings
Trafficking, Organ
Traffickings, Organ
Tree number(s): I01.880.735.191.152
I01.880.735.384.599
SP9.242.315.846.677
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064877
Scope note: Criminal activity that occurs in three broad categories. Firstly, cases where traffickers force or deceive the victims into giving up an organ. Secondly, there are cases where victims formally or informally agree to sell an organ and are cheated because they are not paid for the organ or are paid less than the promised price. Thirdly, vulnerable persons are treated for an ailment, which may or may not exist and thereupon organs are removed without the victim's knowledge.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
EH ethnology
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2014
History Note: 2014
Related: Human Trafficking MeSH
DeCS ID: 55428
Unique ID: D064877
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2014/01/01
Date of Entry: 2013/07/08
Organ Trafficking - Preferred
Concept UI M0584506
Scope note Criminal activity that occurs in three broad categories. Firstly, cases where traffickers force or deceive the victims into giving up an organ. Secondly, there are cases where victims formally or informally agree to sell an organ and are cheated because they are not paid for the organ or are paid less than the promised price. Thirdly, vulnerable persons are treated for an ailment, which may or may not exist and thereupon organs are removed without the victim's knowledge.
Preferred term Organ Trafficking
Entry term(s) Organ Traffickings
Trafficking, Organ
Traffickings, Organ



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