[Social factors as factors in health promotion and health education].

Abstract

The author demands more accurate application of the term social factors, he emphasizes their importance in contemporary tasks of the health services and processes of nation-wide health promotion. He recommends that more attention should be paid to subjective factors, to the participation of man in health care; when investigating subjective factors, new methodological procedure must be sought in social medicine. Some experience assembled in socio-medical experiments is presented.