Toward a Systems Wellness System: A Health Care Strategy for the 21st Century
Is it possible to develop a science of resilience and healing, including ways of measuring, monitoring and understanding the overall processes of health retention, recovery, restoration and reintegration? We believe that such a science is possible if we are able to objectively measure and monitor the core components of the salutogenic (resilience and healing) processes in a whole person. In this project we propose to combine the elements of systems medicine/biology, with the biopsychosocial model of health and disease and focus on the identification and monitoring of those salutogenic components in heterogeneous populations. If successful, this effort would produce a system for monitoring the whole person response to healing and health promotion interventions, lay a foundation for developing a science of resilience and prevention and for the development of new fields, such as “translational wellness research” and “systems health care.” Here we describe the background, rationale and approach we plan to take to develop such a system.
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