Windorfer A
Niedersächsisches Sozialministerium, Hannover.
Gesundheitswesen. 1992 Oct;54(10):501-3.
Sociomedicine in research and practice, i.e. in universities and in public health services, has experienced an upswing many had not expected. The health requirements of society and not only those of the individual have gained a new topicality as social factors were rediscovered in connection with health. Public health services can be advisors to politicians and defence attorneys for the population by assuming a new role and a new measure of self-understanding in the realisation of old but always fresh topics such as environmental medicine (formerly known as environmental hygiene). To translate the multitude of sociomedical tasks effectively into reality, the practically active sociomedical officer in public health services stands in need of the backing and help by sociomedical researchers in the relevant university departments. It will be imperative to achieve in future a greatly improved and closer cooperation between research and practice in sociomedicine.
社会医学在研究与实践领域，即在大学和公共卫生服务机构中，经历了一次许多人未曾预料到的蓬勃发展。随着与健康相关的社会因素被重新发现，社会（而非仅仅是个人）的健康需求有了新的热点。公共卫生服务机构可以通过在诸如环境医学（原称环境卫生学）等古老但始终新颖的议题的实践中承担新角色和新的自我认知方式，成为政治家的顾问以及民众的辩护人。为了将众多社会医学任务有效地转化为现实，公共卫生服务机构中实际工作的社会医学官员需要相关大学部门的社会医学研究人员的支持与帮助。未来，社会医学研究与实践之间实现大幅改进且更为紧密的合作将势在必行。
