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Re-envisioning health promotion

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Subtitle:Thinking and acting salutogenically towards equity for historically resilient communities

This paper explores how the salutogenic theory can enable us to re-envision health promotion work with marginalized communities, towards an approach that acknowledges and honours their resilience. We use the three core concepts in Antonovsky's salutogenic model of health - sense of coherence, generalized resistance resources and specific resistance resources - to explore the theory's relevance to health equity, thus presenting new opportunities for how we might radically re-evaluate current health promotion approaches. We conclude that a more equitable health promotion requires increased participation of marginalized communities in shaping their futures and suggest a new model for historically grounded salutogenic health promotion.

Journal: Glob Health Promot
ISSN: 1757-9759
Issue: 4
Volume: 28
Pages: 88-96
Publication year:2021
Keywords:Health equity, health promotion, resilient communities, salutogenesis
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BOF-publication weight:0.5
Authors:International
Authors from:Higher Education
Accessibility:Open