a sign of a good medical system. That ignores the other possibility. Lack of access in their health system to counseling.
"In a public health perspective this medical approach may seems questionable, but without further research on depression prevalence and why antidepressants are prescribed it is difficult to assess potential public health effects. This is of particular concern, since antidepressants in the absence of therapeutics alternatives are projected to continue to dominate the antidepressant market to 2018 (17)."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00030/full