The modern medical practice strives to keep pace with the times, provide the most technologically convenient and humane solutions for patient care and respond to the latest requirements of the healthcare system. Medicine is a part of the modern world as a hermetic established system in which the results of transformations in the economy and society can affect the health of people. An interesting example in this context is the problem of noise pollution, which has become extremely urgent throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This type of pollution is typical for industrial and modern post-industrial society and is most often associated with life in a large city with an active infrastructure (Jariwala et al., 2017). Noise pollution is extremely harmful to a person’s mental well-being, causing insomnia and stress. In turn, these psychological ailments can completely change a person’s life, starting to destroy their health. Noise pollution first changes a person’s mental perception of reality and only subsequently destroys his physical health.
The most common health problem caused by loud noise is hearing loss. Among other physical problems, complications of the circulatory system are recorded, causing heart disease and pressure disorders. An example of this widespread problem speaks of the internal connectivity of our world as a kind of system. A person experiencing the harmful effects of this type of pollution loses the ability to fully distribute the hours of their time, which leads to underperformance and, therefore, negatively affects the world around them.
To sum up, noise pollution is, on the one hand, a product of an actively developing world, which is forced to provide work and service to a steadily growing number of people. On the other hand, the negative effects of noise pollution demonstrate how a person as a biological complex is easily exposed to external pressure, social and psychological. The example of noise pollution is one piece of evidence that if healthcare and medicine really want to change the world for the better, they should try to improve the conditions of human life.
Reference
Jariwala, H. J., Syed, H. S., Pandya, M. J., & Gajera, Y. M. (2017). Noise pollution & human health: A review. Web.