СТЕПЕНЬ ИНФОРМИРОВАННОСТИ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ О ГОМЕОПАТИИ НА ПРИМЕРЕ МОСКВЫ И МЮНХЕНА

LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF POPULATION ABOUT HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE

One of the important problems of modern Russia as well as other developed countries is aging of population. Therefore has grown a demand on recreation medicine, which allows prolonging able-bodied age. One of methods of recreation medicine is homeopathy. The homeopathy allows to lower a dose of medicines that corresponds to the principle of the rational geriatric pharmacotherapy: by the prescription remedies to the elderly patients it is necessary to consider that the individual approach to a choice of medicinal doses which should in 1,5-2 times smaller than doses recommended to people of middle age is necessary. The research objective was to estimate and compare degree of awareness of the population of Moscow and Munich which is one the cities of Europe about homeopathic methods of treatment; the analysis of information sources about homeopathy; an estimation of a share of the respondents using homeopathy. The conclusion was made that volume of use of homeopathy is not completely used. Consequently the market of homeopathic remedies and services stands open. Besides, it is important to develop sources of getting information about homeopathy, because many respondent hadn’t an appropriate understanding of homeopathic methods of treatment.