scholarly journals Salutogenesis Meeting Places: The Global Working Group, the Center, and the Society on Salutogenesis

2022 ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Georg F. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Working Group ◽  
International Union ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Professional Network ◽  
Host Organization ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

AbstractIn this chapter, the author provides the reader with a useful description of Salutogenesis meeting places. These are the Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis (STARS) and the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis (GWG-Sal) of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). The author also provides information about the Center on Salutogenesis at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. The Center is the host organization of both meeting places. The key message of this chapter is that one’s involvement in STARS will extend one’s professional network, open new avenues for research and publishing, and help achieve a vision of “salutogenesis for thriving societies.” The reader wanting to connect more directly to a global salutogenesis network will find this chapter to be of great practical value.

scholarly journals Waiora: the importance of Indigenous worldviews and spirituality to inspire and inform Planetary Health Promotion in the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
pp. 175797592110622
Author(s):  
Sione Tu’itahi ◽  
Huti Watson ◽  
Richard Egan ◽  
Margot W. Parkes ◽  
Trevor Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
International Union ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
The Social

We now live in a new geological age, the Anthropocene – the age of humans – the start of which coincides with the founding of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) 70 years ago. In this article, we address the fundamental challenge facing health promotion in its next 70 years, which takes us almost to 2100: how do we achieve planetary health? We begin with a brief overview of the massive and rapid global ecological changes we face, the social, economic and technological driving forces behind those changes, and their health implications. At the heart of these driving forces lie a set of core values that are incompatible with planetary health. Central to our argument is the need for a new set of values, which heed and privilege the wisdom of Indigenous worldviews, as well as a renewed sense of spirituality that can re-establish a reverence for nature. We propose an Indigenous-informed framing to inspire and inform what we call planetary health promotion so that, as the United Nations Secretary General wrote recently, we can make peace with nature.

Future directions for the concept of salutogenesis: a position article

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
G F Bauer ◽  
M Roy ◽  
P Bakibinga ◽  
P Contu ◽  
S Downe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Salutogenic Model ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Aaron Antonovsky advanced the concept of salutogenesis almost four decades ago (Antonovsky, Health, Stress and Coping. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1979; Unravelling the Mystery of Health. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1987). Salutogenesis posits that life experiences shape the sense of coherence (SOC) that helps to mobilize resources to cope with stressors and manage tension successfully (determining one’s movement on the health Ease/Dis-ease continuum). Antonovsky considered the three-dimensional SOC (i.e. comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) as the key answer to his question about the origin of health. The field of health promotion has adopted the concept of salutogenesis as reflected in the international Handbook of Salutogenesis (Mittelmark et al., The Handbook of Salutogenesis. Springer, New York, 2016). However, health promotion mostly builds on the more vague, general salutogenic orientation that implies the need to foster resources and capacities to promote health and wellbeing. To strengthen the knowledge base of salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis (GWG-Sal) of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education produced the Handbook of Salutogenesis. During the creation of the handbook and the regular meetings of the GWG-Sal, the working group identified four key conceptual issues to be advanced: (i) the overall salutogenic model of health; (ii) the SOC concept; (iii) the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems; (iv) the application of salutogenesis beyond health sector. For each of these areas, we first highlight Antonovsky’s original contribution and then present suggestions for future development. These ideas will help guide GWG-Sal’s work to strengthen salutogenesis as a theory base for health promotion.

scholarly journals Combate ao Tabagismo no Brasil: a importância estratégica das ações governamentais

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Tavares da Silva ◽  
Mariana Campos Martins ◽  
Franciane Rocha de Faria ◽  
Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
International Union ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Health Promotion And Education

O Brasil é referência mundial no combate ao tabagismo e desenvolve ações por meio do Programa Nacional de Controle do Tabagismo e outros Fatores de Risco de Câncer (PNCTOFR). Com objetivo de apresentar as ações do PNCTOFR identificando as evidências de sua eficácia na redução da prevalência do tabagismo no Brasil, foi realizado este estudo bibliográfico. Utilizou-se documentos disponibilizados nos portais eletrônicos do Inca, da Política Nacional de Promoção da Saúde, do Observatório da Política Nacional de Controle do Tabaco e das Organizações Mundial da Saúde e Pan-Americana de Saúde, além das bases de dados Lilacs, PubMed Central,SciELO, ScienceDirect. O referencial para análise das ações foram as áreas/dimensões propostas pela International Union for Health Promotion and Education. A restrição da disponibilidade, controle do marketing e comercialização, atividades educativas nas escolas, atendimento na atenção primária à saúde a profissionais da área e à população em geral, controle do consumo em locais públicos e de trabalho são algumas das ações que contribuíram para redução na prevalência de tabagismo no Brasil, de 32,7% em 1997 para 14,8% em 2011. Os resultados apontam para a eficácia das ações do PNCTOFR, mas o tabagismo ainda é problema de saúde pública e precisa ser desnormatizado.

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