PATHOGENESIS = The study of the factors that cause disease. Separates health and illness.

• Biomedical Model used by patients and practitioners alike

• Pathologize =  Curative Focus 

 

SALUTOGENESIS = The Study of the origins (genesis) of human health (salus). Salutogenic Model concerned with the relationship between health, stress, and coping. Resources help adaptation to psychosocial stressors with meaningfulness (participation, belonging, opportunity in work and service). Focuses on coherence and the role of stress in human functioning.

• Salutogenesis = Health Promotion Plus Health Patterns

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Salutogenesis is a term coined by medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky.

Focus: “How can this person be helped to move toward greater health?”

 Sense of Coherence Predicts Positive Health Outcomes!

 

Sense of Coherence Has Three Parts:

 

Comprehensibility: A belief that things happen in an orderly and predictable fashion, and a sense that you can understand events in your life, and reasonably predict what will happen in the future.

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 Manageability:  A belief that you have the skills or ability to support the help or the resources necessary to take care of things, and that things are manageable within your control. 

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 Meaningfulness: A belief that things in life are interesting and a source of satisfaction, that things are really worthwhile, and there’s a good reason or purpose to care about what happens.