Salutogenesis – an introduction

Psychosomatic medicine: The art of coping and salutogenesis

Although the term psychosomatic is used in a wide range of contexts – from media to clinics – no exact definition of the term exists that even practitioners and experts of different schools in this domain agreed on. This may be due to its intertidisciplinary, multisystemic, and evolutionary nature. Psychosomatic medicine is an approach to health which deals with the beliefs, narratives, relatio...

The Utility of Salutogenesis for Guiding Health Promotion: the Case for Young People's Wellbeing the Utility of Salutogenesis for Guiding Health Promotion: the Case for Young People's Wellbeing

Twenty years has passed since the publication of the seminal paper ‘The salutogenic model as a theory to guide health promotion’ (Antonovsky, 1996), in which Antonovsky proposed salutogenesis and its central construct sense of coherence (SOC) as a way of boosting the theoretical basis for health promotion activities. Since then there has been a notable amount of conceptual and empirical work ca...

Culture in salutogenesis: the scholarship of Aaron Antonovsky

Aaron Antonovsky wrote extensively, although disjointedly, about the roles of culture in salutogenesis. This paper provides a synopsis of his work in this arena. A literature review identified those of his English language writings in which culture was a subject, and relevant text segments were analysed using an inductive followed by a deductive method. Using thematic network analysis, text seg...

The Sense of Coherence in the Salutogenic Model of Health

The aim of this section is to shortly describe the theoretical framework of salutogenesis with a special focus on the key concepts, the sense of coherence and the generalized and specific resistance resources. This chapter begins with reflection on the ontological and epistemological background of salutogenesis, which is not particularly described and explained to any significant extent in the ...

Literature Review Salutogenesis and the Promotion of Positive Mental Health in Older People

Integrating Salutogenesis into Wellness in Every Stage of Life

I enjoyed reading Dr. Steinberg’s editorial “Wellness in Every Stage of Life: A New Paradigm for Public Health Programs” (1) and the related articles in the January 2007 issue. We face many challenges in conceptualizing wellness because the term has different meanings for different people. To reach a common understanding of wellness, we could begin by using Antonovsky’s salutogenesis work (24) ...