Experts call this "medicalization. "
In fact, according to a May report in Social Science and Medicine , Americans spent about $ 77 billion on treatments, pills, and thought processes to cure what the problems were previously non-medical. - and that was our level of spending five years ago
Cue the "gasp" collective about what we spend today in 2010. So what gives Are we really enjoy our medical technology for cosmetic purposes?
It seems so.
the study of social sciences and medicine was the first to put a price on this so-called medicalization, the process of defining non-medical problems as medical problems who receive the treatment. and apparently the price of over-medicalization help increase health insurance costs and health care. We talk procedures and drugs to "cure" obesity, wrinkles, and even sparse lashes.
Basically, if we were less vain, we could save big on health care.
Research suggests that if Americans stopped spending much money on cosmetic problems hiding medical conditions in need of treatment, we would be the cost of health care in general significantly lower .
Just to hammer the point home a little further, this is what we spend annually for some of these medical services: $ 12.4 billion for cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery, $ 1.1 billion for the infertility, $ 10.9 billion for anxiety disorders, $ 1.8 billion of sleep disorders, of $ 1.1 billion for erectile dysfunction, and $ 1.1 for male pattern baldness.
Thank you, Hollywood.
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