卫生事业究竟在社会生活中处于什么样的地位?它的社会功能究竟是什么?把卫生事业视为单纯的消费事业是否正确?这些问题的研究和讨论,有助于我们把卫生事业和社会经济的发展联系起来,有助于从整个社会发展的战略目标来考虑卫生事业的建设。我们认为,卫生事业的生产性质是明确的,卫生事业在社会发展中具有重要的经济地位和作用。马克思关于生产劳动的理论,为我们认识卫生事业的经济地位和作用提供了重要的依据。马克思生活在十九世纪。当时,现代医院这样的医疗机构尚未出现,卫生事业 What is the position of public health in social life, what is its social function, and whether it is right to regard health as a purely consumer enterprise? The research and discussion on these issues will help us to integrate health and social economy Linked to the development of social development will help to consider the strategic objectives of the development of health. In our opinion, the nature of the health business is clear and the health sector has an important economic status and role in social development. Marx’s theory of productive labor provides an important basis for our understanding of the economic status and role of health undertakings. Marx lived in the nineteenth century. At that time, such a modern hospital medical institutions have not yet appeared, health