salutogenesis

Salutogenesis 30 Years Later: Where do we go from here?

His essential argument is that "salutogenesis" depends on experiencing a strong "sense of coherence."

This concept is also formulated as integration of a pathogenesis that addresses diseases with salutogenesis that promotes health and well-being.

During his twenty years in that Department, Antonovsky developed his theory of health and illness, which he termed Salutogenesis.

Factors that promote health (i.e., salutogenesis) as opposed to focusing on factors that generate illness and disease (i.e., pathogenesis).

According to its practitioners, anthroposophic medicine uses a holistic approach ("salutogenesis") that seeks to support the preconditions for health by strengthening the patient's physiology and individuality, as well as addressing the specific factors that cause disease.