HEALTH FACTORS CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION,

PROBLEM OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE HEALTH

It has been considered repeatedly to culture and civilization as causes of many diseases, to have arrived finally to the creation of concepts such as "scourges of culture" and "diseases of civilization". Today, these expressions cover - both the technical literature and in the popular on sanitary- problems, a number of metabolic diseases and nutrition such as dental caries, stomach ulcers, diabetes, obesity, diseases of liver , bladder, kidneys, heart and blood vessels, as well as rheumatism, cancer and tuberculosis.

A superficial observer might get the impression that the "culture" and "civilization" are not desirable and even downright harmful things. In recent years, exaggerating the facts are increasing voices of those who attribute to culture and civilization more inconvenient than advantages for man, for which place culture and civilization far from nature to make it contradict is. To analyze this issue, undoubtedly important, we must first find response to what we mean by "culture" and "civilization.