The vast proportion of cash spent on health care by governments and individuals in the world is spent on systems of health care that are based on a more or less Westernised acute care model. The imbalance of these systems, with their overemphasis on cure, as opposed to care and prevention or maintenance of health, is well documented. Salutogenic health care takes a holistic view of the individual as part of a social and environmental continuum rather than as an isolated collection of symptoms; and seeks to reassess the very meaning of health. There are some indications that we, as a global...
The vast proportion of cash spent on health care by governments and individuals in the world is spent on systems of health care that are based on a mo...
Salutogenic health care takes a holistic view of the individual as part of a social and environmental continuum rather than as an isolated packet of symptoms, and seeks to reassess the very meaning of health. This book sets out to chart the main steps of this movement and to indicate some of the ways of thinking and action.
Salutogenic health care takes a holistic view of the individual as part of a social and environmental continuum rather than as an isolated packet of s...
Primary health care (PHC) began as a solution to problems in the developing world and is coming to be seen as a profound challenge to medical attitudes the world over.
Primary health care (PHC) began as a solution to problems in the developing world and is coming to be seen as a profound challenge to medical attitude...
