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FOCUS ON:
Health
The LifeWhys framework integrates several very practical approaches to the factors that support health and well-being – the factors that contribute to what Aaron Antonovsky called salutogenesis and ‘coherence’.
The need for this approach is more vital than ever with the pressures of reform in the health service, the growing emphasis on early intervention and prevention. This is also set in a context where the UK has the some of the highest levels of obesity, alcohol misuse, teenage pregnancy and STDs, smoking related disease, and mental health disorders in Europe - issues that are only set to worsen with the pressures of the poor economic climate – unless we change our approach.
For example, the annual cost to the UK economy of sickness absence and worklessness associated with working age ill-health are estimated to be over £100 billion.
There is, therefore, a compelling case for a fresh proactive approach that involves everyone in improving the health and well-being of the population – to help ensure healthy, thriving outcomes for all.
The application of the LifeWhys framework significantly reduces and prevents the risky behaviours that cause poor health outcomes - be it sexual related, substance abuse, mental health etc. and promote the protective factors that build coherence, health and well-being.
The LifeWhys framework has been proven to significantly improve the health of individuals in the community. To find out more, get in touch.
The impact of life thriving factors on health:
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Aaron Antonovsky PhD, (December 19, 1923 – July 7, 1994)
Salutogenesis (Antonovsky, A. "Health, Stress and Coping" San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1979)- the study of health development as opposed to pathogenesis which is the study of disease development. Salutogenesis considers how to create, enhance, and improve physical, mental, and social well-being.
Coherence predicts a positive salutogenic health outcome if a person has a sense of meaningfulness which gives them the motivation to comprehend and manage life events. Antonovsky described these three broad components of salutogenesis as follows:
- Comprehensibility: a belief that things happen in an orderly and predictable fashion and a sense that you can understand events in your life and reasonably predict what will happen in the future.
- Manageability: a belief that you have the skills or ability, the support, the help, or the resources necessary to take care of things, and that things are manageable and within your control.
- Meaningfulness: a belief that things in life are interesting and a source of satisfaction, that things are really worth it and that there is good reason or purpose to care about what happens.
The LifeWhys framework is a set of practical building blocks that reinforce these components. <TOP
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