Unnecessary health care

Unnecessary health care - health care or treatment provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. Article “Unnecessary health care” in English Wikipedia has 69.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.64 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Unnecessary health care”, its content was written by 70 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 160 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 233 times in English Wikipedia and cited 498 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #35925 in July 2017
• Global: #20390 in September 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #248448 in October 2019
• Global: #346414 in October 2019

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 不必要的醫療照顧		75.012
2	English (en) Unnecessary health care		69.2315
3	German (de) Übertherapie		53.6193
4	Japanese (ja) 無駄な医療		43.8463
5	Hebrew (he) רפואה עודפת		29.149
6	Serbian (sr) Несврсисходно лечење		26.1044
7	Swedish (sv) Överbehandling		26.0989
8	Arabic (ar) رعاية صحية غير ضرورية		23.5907
9	Korean (ko) 과잉 진료		16.1294

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Unnecessary health care" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Unnecessary health care		244 595
2	Japanese (ja) 無駄な医療		91 715
3	Korean (ko) 과잉 진료		34 957
4	German (de) Übertherapie		15 474
5	Chinese (zh) 不必要的醫療照顧		9 735
6	Arabic (ar) رعاية صحية غير ضرورية		1 012
7	Hebrew (he) רפואה עודפת		783
8	Serbian (sr) Несврсисходно лечење		420
9	Swedish (sv) Överbehandling		285

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Unnecessary health care" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Unnecessary health care		1 137
2	Japanese (ja) 無駄な医療		267
3	Chinese (zh) 不必要的醫療照顧		236
4	Korean (ko) 과잉 진료		119
5	German (de) Übertherapie		80
6	Serbian (sr) Несврсисходно лечење		20
7	Arabic (ar) رعاية صحية غير ضرورية		11
8	Swedish (sv) Överbehandling		9
9	Hebrew (he) רפואה עודפת		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Unnecessary health care" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Unnecessary health care		70
2	German (de) Übertherapie		41
3	Japanese (ja) 無駄な医療		20
4	Chinese (zh) 不必要的醫療照顧		10
5	Arabic (ar) رعاية صحية غير ضرورية		7
6	Serbian (sr) Несврсисходно лечење		5
7	Korean (ko) 과잉 진료		3
8	Hebrew (he) רפואה עודפת		2
9	Swedish (sv) Överbehandling		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Unnecessary health care" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) رعاية صحية غير ضرورية		0
2	German (de) Übertherapie		0
3	English (en) Unnecessary health care		0
4	Hebrew (he) רפואה עודפת		0
5	Japanese (ja) 無駄な医療		0
6	Korean (ko) 과잉 진료		0
7	Serbian (sr) Несврсисходно лечење		0
8	Swedish (sv) Överbehandling		0
9	Chinese (zh) 不必要的醫療照顧		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Unnecessary health care" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Unnecessary health care		233
2	Japanese (ja) 無駄な医療		130
3	Chinese (zh) 不必要的醫療照顧		75
4	Arabic (ar) رعاية صحية غير ضرورية		21
5	Serbian (sr) Несврсисходно лечење		21
6	German (de) Übertherapie		7
7	Hebrew (he) רפואה עודפת		5
8	Korean (ko) 과잉 진료		5
9	Swedish (sv) Överbehandling		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic رعاية صحية غير ضرورية
de	German Übertherapie
en	English Unnecessary health care
he	Hebrew רפואה עודפת
ja	Japanese 無駄な医療
ko	Korean 과잉 진료
sr	Serbian Несврсисходно лечење
sv	Swedish Överbehandling
zh	Chinese 不必要的醫療照顧

Best Rank

English: #248448 10.2019

Global: #346414 10.2019

Best Rank

English: #35925 07.2017

Global: #20390 09.2017

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