Basic ideas

Paedimed is a health promotion project based on a resource oriented salutogenic health concept.

According to the salutogenesis model by Aaron Antonovsky and the Ottawa Charter of the World Health Organization (WHO), health promotion forms a multidimensional process whose aim it is to increase the level of control over their health state for all human beings.

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The aim is to enable individuals, by specific means, to increase their influence on their health and to improve it actively. The focus are those resources that will help the individual to stay healthy, and not risk factors.

Establishing health promotion on a higher level has not yet been realized sufficiently. Education and especially health education play a very important role in this process.

In this context, paedimed forms a health promotion project that, by specific means, intends to enable individuals to maintain good health.