[Psycho-social and socio-medical problems with modern patients and diseases. II]

The complexity of psychosocial diagnosis is closely linked with sociomedical problems of diagnosis and treatment of contemporary patients. Contemporary patients are a complicated complex as regards factors and conditions of the genesis and development of disease and its symptomatology. As to the main external factors which influence the development of disease, it is important to mention in particular neuropsychic strain, adynamia, unbalanced diet, undesirable habits and contaminants--allergens. What is characteristic of contemporary patients? Polymorbidity, an altered pathology of diseases as regards the character of external conditions in the present period, a considerable increase of the morbidity from neuroses and neurotic syndromes. A very urgent problem of contemporary patients is obesity and its complications. In conjunction with the development of disease we must take into account also the contemporary allergic background. Among patients there is a high rate of chronic foca diseases, undesirable habits, latent clinical symptomatology.