Widening the Paradigm in Medicine and Health: The Memorandum of Understanding between the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine EPMA and the Italian Charity ?Association for Person Centred Medicine?

The Authors describe the process of widening the paradigm within EPMA incorporating into its actions the Person-Centred Medicine Paradigm. It is a humanistic and at the same time evidence-based approach. It allows for that individual psycho-physical equilibrium which is the basis for any sustainable equilibrium in society at present or in the future (responsibility). Person-Centred Medicine calls for wider medical knowledge and practice, not only of how to treat pathology but how to generate health (salutogenesis). It is a systemic approach and adopts a unitary view of sentient being and the world. The Person Centred Medicine Paradigm aims to incorporate the holistic approach, the relationship-based care and the treatment systems of biomedicine into the technological advances of mainstream medicine in order to provide more personalised and sustainable healthcare.