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Assessment of Acute Wound Healing using the Dorsal Subcutaneous Polyvinyl Alcohol Sponge Implantation and Excisional Tail Skin Wound Models.
Published on: March 25, 2020
How can we study healing?: Reflections on salutogenesis, causation, and methodology
1Institute for Global Human Flourishing, Institute for Studies of Religion and Medical Humanities Program, Baylor University, One Bear Place # 97236, Waco, TX 76798, USA.
Abstract:
This essay follows up an earlier article that provided a conceptual history of the term healing and described the healing process as multidimensional in expression and multifactorial in antecedents. The present paper offers guidance on how healing might be studied, through combining conceptual understandings of disease causation and theoretical approaches to the natural history or course of disease-making (pathogenesis) and healing (salutogenesis). A model is proposed to guide research on healing, drawing on insights from multifactorial approaches to disease risk and etiology, current theories of disease causation, the concepts of salutogenesis and the natural history of health, and contemporary understandings of human physiology.
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