The textbook was created in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard in the direction of training "Social Work. "The current provisions relating to social issues of medicine are outlined. The problems of health protection of certain social groups of the population, as well as social and environmental factors that form and destroy health are considered. Contains information about the organization of the health care system and the protection of public health in the Russian Federation. The main directions of social and medical technologies for helping patients with one or another pathology, rehabilitation of disabled people, protection of motherhood and childhood, social and medical educational activities are given. For students of institutions of higher professional education.