What is the difference between salutogenic and pathogenic?

What is the difference between salutogenic and pathogenic?

In the traditional disease-oriented (pathogenic) model of health, the focus is on causes of disease. Accordingly, the disease control strategies target these causes e.g. smoking, overweight and so on. In salutogenic model, the emphasis is put on the factors which cause global well-being.

What is salutogenic?

The salutogenic approach or salutogenesis is a term applied in health sciences, and more recently in other fields, to refer to an approach to wellness focusing on health and not on disease (pathogenesis).

What does the salutogenic model of health focus on?

The Salutogenic Model is centred around the idea that health results of continuous everyday life interactions between the individual and inevitable social-, economic-, cultural-, physical-, mental- and biochemical stressors [38].

What is the opposite of salutogenesis?

Salutogenesis, therefore, is the opposite of pathogenesis. The salutogenic model focuses on the causes of global well-being rather than the etiology of specific disease processes.

What is Salutogenesis and pathogenesis?

Salutogenesis is the origins of health and focuses on factors that support human health and well-being, rather than on factors that cause disease (pathogenesis).

What is a pathogenic perspective?

The emphasis of the pathogenic approach is on understanding the causes and consequences of disease, rather than understanding the factors that promote health and healing. The limiting idea behind the pathogenic paradigm is that by studying sickness we can come to understand and enhance health.

What is salutogenesis and health promotion?

Salutogenesis focuses on the origins of what creates health (strengths and resources) and focuses attention toward the development of health [34]. In contrast, the usual pathogenic approach considers health and disease as two mutually exclusive states and focuses on the risk factors associated with disease [35].

What are salutogenic factors?

A ‘salutogenic’ approach is one that focuses on factors that support health and wellbeing, beyond a more traditional, ‘pathogenic’ focus on risk and problems.

What is a pathogenic paradigm?

‘Pathogens’ are disease causing agents (e.g., germs and viruses). Thus, the pathogenic paradigm represents an approach to understanding health and illness that is focused on understanding the origins of and treating disease.

What is pathogenesis to salutogenesis?

Grant Lisetor of Greater Life Chiropractic focuses on salutogenesis instead of pathogenesis, which is a more proactive approach based on function rather than feeling. The goal of salutogenesis is to use holistic measures, such as chiropractic care, to bring about a healthier body through optimizing function.