The Salutogenic Paradigm – The Key to Understanding Health

The collection of beliefs we hold to concerning a particular topic is referred to as a paradigm or worldview. There are many paradigms in the world concerning a wide variety of topics. Virtually no topic varies as widely in beliefs as does health and well-being. There are two primary paradigms concerning health that agree in some respects but tend to be concerned with very different focal points.   The first paradigm is known as