What are the characteristic theories and innovative viewpoints of social medicine?

1. Coordinated development of health and society

(1) The scale and speed of health development are directly restricted by social development, so the development of health must be coordinated with national economic and social development, and the level of people's health security must be adapted to the level of economic development.

(2) The development of medical care has surpassed the development of society. Not only is medical treatment unsustainable, but it will also bring many negative effects to the development of society. Similarly, if health development lags behind social development, people's health will not be guaranteed, which will not only affect the improvement of social productivity, but also cause serious economic losses due to the epidemic of diseases and affect the coordinated development of society.

2. Two-way function of health and socio-economic development

(1) Social economy is the basic condition for human survival and health and the fundamental guarantee for maintaining and promoting people's health.

(2) The improvement of people's health level promotes social and economic development.

(3) The World Health Organization regards "social and economic development promotes health undertakings, and health undertakings also promote social and economic development" as a basic truth recognized in practice.

3. Physically, psychologically and socially positive and healthy views

(1) From the perspective of holistic medicine, the human body is an organic whole.

(2) People have physical and psychological activities at the same time, which have both natural medical education network arrangements and sociality.

(3) WHO's definition of health: Health is not only the absence of disease or weakness, but also a complete state of body, mind and society. Health is a combination of biology, psychology and sociology.

(4) A positive outlook on health is no longer satisfied with the prevention and treatment of diseases, but actively requires improving the quality of life and health, eliminating diseases and prolonging life, establishing interpersonal relationships and social psychological atmosphere conducive to physical and mental health, maintaining psychological balance, and living a more meaningful and valuable life.

4. Pay attention to high-risk groups and high-risk factors.

(1) High-risk analysis is to find out the main problems in health work and take key preventive measures to improve the health level of the population from the high-risk point of view.

(2) High-risk mainly includes high-risk population, high-risk environment and high-risk factors.

A. High-risk groups refer to people who are prone to diseases, including people in high-risk environments, people who have high-risk reactions to the environment, and people who have high-risk behaviors.

B. High-risk factors refer to factors that pose a threat to health.

C. High-risk environment includes natural, social and psychological environment with risk factors.

5. The leading role of social factors in disease prevention and control.

(1) With the development of social economy and the breakthrough of biomedical technology, the spectrum of human diseases and the causes of death have changed obviously. The main causes of death have gradually shifted from acute and chronic infectious diseases, parasitic diseases and malnutrition to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, malignant tumors and accidents.

(2) Chronic non-communicable diseases are the result of long-term comprehensive action of various pathogenic factors, and their occurrence and development are closely related to social economy, living conditions, behavioral lifestyles and various risk factors in the environment.

(3) We should not rely solely on biological therapy, but rely more on social measures to sort out the medical education network. In particular, through social health survey, we should find out the existing health problems, analyze their social causes, take social preventive measures against these pathogenic factors, reduce and eliminate various health risk factors, and at the same time formulate social health care "prescriptions" to improve health, realize the physical and mental balance between individuals and groups and coordinate with society, so as to obtain health.

6. Health work needs the participation of the whole society.

(1) Diseases and health have attracted more and more attention from the whole society, and caring for people's health has become an important responsibility of governments at all levels.

(2) Health work involves all aspects of society.

(3) Health service is essentially a kind of social public service that everyone needs and benefits together. Improving people's health level requires the active action and participation of the whole society (macro-health concept).

(4) The macro-health concept emphasizes that the health system must change from closed to open, and it must cooperate with other departments to mobilize the whole society to make health work an important part of social development.