Interdisziplinarität und ko-kreative Paradigmen angewandter Sozialmedizin

Social medicine, as practiced in the Federal Republic of Germany, is based on an interdisciplinary foundation. Within the multifaceted range of tasks assigned to it by the social insurance system, it implements both participatory and transformative processes through multiprofessional cooperation and co-creation. A symposium organized by the DGSMP's "Practical Social Medicine and Rehabilitation" department with significant participation of its Working Group on Nursing at the 60th annual conference of the German Society for Social Medicine and Rehabilitation (DGSMP) on September 19, 2025, at the Charité hospital, was dedicated to the theoretical and practical complexity of social medicine. It was conceived as a catalyst for defining a contemporary profile for social medicine and for fostering constructive discourse in the future. Six individual presentations addressed key concepts constituting social medicine and social legislation for categorizing social medicine's multiprofessional practice. The interdisciplinary agenda included selected topics from epistemological, historical, legal, health science, nursing science, and medical perspectives.