Salutogenesis concept for hospice design

Salutogenesis: The Defining Concept for a New Healthcare System

Suffering and salutogenesis.

In considering pain and suffering, some considerations will appear about epistemological beliefs shaping the clinical practices of health-care workers. With this, we try to understand the usual omission of human suffering in the training of many health professionals. So, we emphasize the role of the pathogenic paradigm in how human suffering is viewed in health care. In contrast to those who se...

Introducing the concept of salutogenesis to school leadership research: problematizing empirical methodologies and findings

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Salutogenesis: The Authentic Wellness Model for Health

A century ago, infectious diseases were the health crises of the day. Researchers broke ground with treatments and cures. Populations underwent radical improvements in lifestyle, such as sanitation, clean water and improved nutrition. Today, we no longer fear illness as previous generations did, yet we still do not consider our era to be one of health. In place of infectious diseases, we have c...

Salutogenesis – an introduction

What generates health? What makes us move in the direction of health? These simple and original questions created an opening to a new way of thinking in health research. It was raised in the late 1970ies by Aaron Antonovsky, a medical sociologists interested in stress theory who had undertaken a traditional epidemiological study on the effects of menopause on women who had undergone extremely s...