The Sense of Coherence: The Concept and Its Relationship to Health

Monica Eriksson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79515-3_9

The Sense of Coherence: The Concept and Its Relationship to Health

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In: The Handbook of Salutogenesis [Internet]. 2nd edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2022. Chapter 9.

2022 Jan 1.

Author

Monica Eriksson¹

Book Editors

Maurice B. Mittelmark¹, Georg F. Bauer², Lenneke Vaandrager³, Jürgen M. Pelikan⁴, Shifra Sagy⁵, Monica Eriksson⁶, Bengt Lindström⁷, Claudia Meier Magistretti⁸

Affiliation

¹ Department of Health Sciences, Section of Health Promotion and Care Sciences, Center on Salutogenesis, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

Book Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Promotion and Development, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
² Center of Salutogenesis, Division of Public and Organizational Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
³ Department of Social Sciences, Health and Society, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
⁴ University of Vienna, and WHO-Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Healthcare, Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH), Vienna, Austria
⁵ Martin Springer Center for Conflict Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel
⁶ Department of Health Sciences, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
⁷ NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
⁸ Centre for Health Promotion and Participation, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland

Excerpt

In this chapter, the theoretical framework of the salutogenic model of health is described, with special focus on the key concepts and reflection on the ontological and epistemological background of the health model, which so far is little explored and described. Essential in the salutogenic model of health is the understanding of health as a process in a continuum, the health ease/dis-ease continuum. This is described and explained in the chapter. Some evidence of the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and health is presented.

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