(1) To provide theoretical and practical basis for formulating strategies, tactics, guidelines and policy plans of health undertakings: Because social medicine studies social medical problems from different macro and micro levels, people can provide theoretical and practical basis for formulating strategies, tactics, guidelines and policy plans of health undertakings, and formulate various implementation measures and index systems to achieve this strategic goal.

(2) It is beneficial to improve the quality and medical level of medical staff: for medical staff, by studying and studying social medicine, they can enrich their medical knowledge, guide their medical practice with modern medical theories, and attach importance to both biological reasons and psychological and social reasons in medical work; For the diagnosis of diseases, not only technical diagnosis, but also social diagnosis; For the prevention and treatment of diseases, both drug prescriptions and social prescriptions can be prescribed, which will inevitably improve the medical level. Therefore, learning and mastering social medicine can make medical staff consciously combine social prevention with medical prevention, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases more effectively and promoting people's physical and mental health.

(3) Studying and studying social medicine is an important content and measure of medical education reform. Through studying and studying social medicine, medical workers can broaden their horizons, broaden their knowledge and gradually understand the social status and role of medicine and health care. The application of social medical knowledge can make medical scientific and technological achievements be used to protect and promote people's health to the maximum extent and quickly, and be used in the social practice of preventing and treating diseases, broaden the horizons of medical staff and improve their analysis and insight ability.