title: [Plea for a strengthening of clinical social medicine].
abstract: Social medicine is concerned--in the midst of a constantly changing society--with the social and economic conditions that influence health, disease and medical care. A comprehensive medical care therefore requires medical doctors who, beyond the biomedical issues, realize diseases in the context of the social needs of the individual person and systematically include these in their prevention, treatment and rehabilitation concepts.The system of social security, particularly the health care system, depends on medical doctors' expertise in helping patients for the appropriate use of services from the system of social security. According to the German professional education regulations for doctors the additional specialization in "social medicine" also includes the competence for "assessment of the nature and extent of health disorders and their classification in the framework of social security systems". This judgment is one part of the tasks of the Medical Services belonging to the various branches of the social security system. It is also provided in practice by medical doctors with competence in social medicine working in acute care facilities.
authors.affiliation: Department für Frauengesundheit des Universitätsklinikums Tübingen.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Simoes
authors.affiliation: Landeszentrale für Gesundheit in Bayern.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Gostomzyk
authors.affiliation: Institut für Arbeitsmedizin, Sozialmedizin und Versorgungsforschung Universitätsklinikum Tübingen.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Schmahl
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Tübingen.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bamberg
authors.affiliation: Department für Frauengesundheit des Universitätsklinikums Tübingen.
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Brucker
authors.affiliation: Department für Frauengesundheit des Universitätsklinikums Tübingen.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wallwiener
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005858:Germany; D017146:Models, Organizational; D020380:Needs Assessment; D012936:Social Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*