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J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:511
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Professor Aaron Antonovsky (1923–1994): the father of the salutogenesis

  1. Bengt Lindström1,
  2. Monica Eriksson2
  1. 1The Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenborg, Sweden
  2. 2The Salutogenic Project, Nordic School of Public Health
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr B Lindström
 The Nordic School of Public Health, Box 12133, Nya Varvet, Gothenborg 40242, Sweden; bengtnhv.se

    Ten years ago Aaron Antonovsky died after a short period of disease. His death meant a break in the leadership of a new innovative direction in public health research. His fundamental contribution was to raise the philosophical “salutogenic” question of what creates health and search for “the origin of health” rather than to look for the causes of disease. He was born in Brooklyn New York studied sociology and later became professor and head of the department of sociology of health at …

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