We are relatively sure about what we categorize as ‘sick,’ and we define the limits of what we consider ‘healthy.’ But what is ‘normal?’ The scientists at the Institute of Community Medicine at Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald are trying to answer this question. They look at the whole picture in order to help the individual. The Institute of Community Medicine is unlike any other in Germany.

By Claus Peter Müller von der Grün