Despite the accelerating development of medicine, the introduction of breakthrough technologies and techniques in healthcare, the victory over previously incurable diseases, the number of pharmacies, however, is increasing. Which, based on the law of supply and demand, indicates only an increase in the number of patients. Why is this happening?
Paradox of the situation
Since then, when people were treated mainly with mushrooms and roots, many centuries have passed. Nowadays, the need for traditional medicine has almost disappeared, because modern official medicine can successfully and at a very affordable price cure many diseases. Including, by selling effective medicines through pharmacies.
Health care is developing by leaps and bounds, so it would seem that the population should also grow by the same leaps and bounds. However, the harsh reality suggests the opposite - the number of pharmacies in recent years in all cities has increased many times over. Under market conditions, this situation only indicates an increase in demand for medicines, which in turn indicates an increase in health problems in the population.
Why is this happening
In Soviet times, there were few pharmacies in cities. And the point in this case was not a shortage of goods, but the fact that the existing pharmacies were satisfying the population’s demand for medicines. This is confirmed by the surviving statistics, according to which life expectancy in those years was higher, fertility far exceeded mortality, and drug prices were set at a much lower level compared to modern ones.
Modern drugs are often very expensive because of the need to pay back the high costs of their advertising.
In addition, some private owners could not produce and sell low-quality or useless medicines, as is sometimes the case today. After all, all production was in the hands of the state, in the factories of which strict technical control departments were always present.
In addition, the Soviet country sought to provide a stable life for its citizens. A person was always provided with work (even when crises raged throughout the rest of the world), he could not so easily lose it and remain left to his own devices, as this, unfortunately, is possible now. He also could not fall into intolerable credit slavery, having fallen on the hook of cunning bank marketers. Meanwhile, the nervous tension and stresses of our modern life are the main source of many diseases.
Due to stress and constant nervous tension, peptic ulcers, diseases of the cardiovascular system, tumor formations, and various mental illnesses can occur.
In today's society, urbanization also has a big impact on people's health. Residents of large cities are now mainly employed in the service sector, and this is mostly sedentary or even sedentary work. Lack of physical activity causes various ailments and diseases, such as problems with the cardiovascular system, obesity, chronic fatigue syndrome, tone decline, fibromyalgia (chronic musculoskeletal pain).
Urbanization also implies urban sprawl, which is why industrial (including the most harmful - metallurgical) enterprises that were once on the outskirts suddenly find themselves among the populated areas.
