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Taking care for the patients is the ultimate goal for the classical medicine. Having a patient means for the practitioner to help people to recover again. This type of medical treatment is the classical type, the pathogenic care.

The opposite of pathogenic care is salutogenic care, taking into account to treat patients that are not patients in the meaning of pathogenic one’s. The salutogenic patients are not suffering on any pathogenic decease, more the less they are healthy.

Pathogenic Care vs. Salutogenic Care differs in how the patient is managing a possible desease in his individual life.

Pathogenic Medicine is derived from the definition of pathogenesis, the development of decease or morbid condition.

This is more or less the condition, a human is called a patient and will furthermore require medical treatment to recover completely.

A classic situation, that a medical treatment will not take place before the patient shows any mobid condition is part of the practitioners diagnosis.

That means, first the human must have a decease first, then the practitioner will try to put the patient back into an non-morbid condition.

The opposite of pathogenic care is salutogenic care.

Standing on the opposite of the classical pathogenic care, salutognic medicine is derived from “salutogenese”, which is not dealing with morbid conditions or deceases.

Salutogenesis (Aron Antonovsky) is taking part of the active life of each individual and focusing on the process of health, living and healing.

In relation to the pathogenic medicine, salutogenic medicine will combine health and decease in one single approach to manage one’s individual health status.

Similar to complementary medicine, individualized medicine can help to compete with each health status and to improve the value of health living and healing.

Therefore a preventive type of medicine can assist to improve salutogenic medicine and the patients quality of health. The combination of preventive medical treatment and salutogenic medicine can reduce the risks of getting a moribid condition or decease.

The salutogenic approach can help to increase patient quality of health.

In the recent years, individualized medicine has become more interesting for health, since it moves the focus of health from reactive to more preventive. Leaving also the status of a one-size-fits-all medicine, to a more personalized and optimized individualization of therapies and drugs.

This will reduce costs in health care treatment, while moving from trial-and error prescription to a safer and more cost effective care system.

In parallel to the change of treatment perspective, the continuous examination of technologies enabling personalized medicine will include the role of health information technology, as well as gene sequencing (the “-omics”) and integration of clinical data will reveal the link between genetic variation, decease and treatment response.