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    From the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to Planetary Health

    Series series Medicine (R0)
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  • The Handbook of Salutogenesis

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized ... Read more

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