Yatrogenic diseases or iatrogenia - these are diseases caused by the physician or other actions of the doctor or drugs. Recently, the number of similar disorders is growing, as the amount of medical care is growing. Read more about the reasons for the growth of the number of doctors, read in the article.
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Medicine - salvation plus risk
Progress of medical science and technology, expansion and improvement of medical care, introducing new highly active medicines and vaccines into the medical practice, on the one hand, provided a shorter time and a greater completeness of the recovery of patients, reduced the number of deaths. On the other hand, in parallel with this, the degree of danger of medical care, the number of non-herogenous diseases and mortality from them. According to some scientists, medicine approached such a line. Any appeal to the doctor is not only blessing, but also the risk of losing health and even life. There are several reasons for the growth of the number of yatrogenation.
Causes of increasing the number of doctrine violations
The first group of reasons is an ever-increasing frequency of population contacts with medical workers. A sharp increase in contact frequency is due, firstly, an increase in independent appeals of the population for medical care caused by a more attentive attitude to their health and expansionable possibilities of obtaining it; secondly, the expansion of preventive care to the population; Third, the transition to specialization and the multi-stage of medical care, as a result of which the patient is currently in the process of treatment, contacts dozens of medical workers (instead of one to two at the beginning of the century).
The second group of yatrogenation growth is the expansion of the spectrum and an increase in the risk of various devices and tools that are used to prevent diseases, determining the state of health and its recovery. The doctor sees only a positive side in them and does not know, forgets or ignores their negative side effect. Expanding the famous statement of Paracelles that any substance can be poison or medication depending on the quantity, it can be said that any medical instrument or device, regardless of its nature under certain conditions, can cause damage and lead to the development of yatrogenic diseases.
The third group of risk factors for the development of iatrogenies is legitimately attributed to improving the sensitivity of many modern people to the factors of damage, especially mental, chemical and biological (infectious) nature.
The fourth group includes medical factors of subjective nature, including:
- a weak scientific development of the security problem of medical care, especially methods for the prevention of nuclei;
- Inattention to it from the health authorities;
- the low level of pre-diploma and postplomal training and the degree of competence of medical professionals in safety issues;
- Ignoring safety requirements in the construction and operation of medical institutions, creating and using medical devices, tools, leaving items, methods and means of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases;
- weak material base of a number of medical institutions;
- lack of accounting system, reporting, analyzing the majority of forms of non-hydrogen diseases;
- distrust of a significant part of the population to the activities of health authorities.
These groups of reasons for the development of iatrogenies have a certain value for the distribution of all groups of iatrogenies, but each of them has its own specifics.
