Holistic Health and Stress Resilience

📋 Course Outline

1. Salutogenesis Model
2. HEDE Continuum
3. Sense of Coherence
4. Resistance Resources
5. Disease Causation Model
6. Risk Factors for Disease
7. Prevention Strategies
8. Stress and Anxiety Risks
9. Pathogenesis Model
10. Stress as Harmful Agent
11. Biological Damage from Stress
12. Salutogenesis Stress Approach

📖 1. Salutogenesis Model

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Focus on health: The approach asks "What keeps people healthy?" rather than "What makes people sick?", emphasizing the factors that promote and sustain health.
• HEDE continuum: Health and disease are not opposites but points on a continuous scale; individuals move along this scale dynamically, never being entirely healthy or ill (see section 2).
• Sense of coherence: Antonovsky (1987): The confidence that life is understandable, manageable, and meaningful. A stronger sense of coherence enhances stress coping ability and promotes health.
• Resistance resources: Personal "life jackets" such as stable psyche, good social support, knowledge, or money, which help individuals manage stress and maintain health (see section 4).

📝 Essential Points