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Assets for Health and salutogenesis The public health approach focused solely on on prevention is turning.

That is, the e traditional tendency of the twentieth century public health, to rely on reducing risks as a away of preventing and disease and which rest upon the protecting population health, which inhibits opportunities for positive approaches to on and prevention emphasizes reducing risk factors in order to stop the advance of these factors, mitigating the consequences or create barriers to the disease, is giving little a short walk to the public health. approach positive. PThe positive health is a way of seeing health actions that , focusing his eyes on to what makes people, families and communities be able to increase control over their health and improve. In this model revitalizes the health promotion will win the idea of asset value to health. The conceptualization of "health assets" and "positive health" follows the logic of making easier for populations y and affordable for Government to maximise opportunities for options for the welfare, growth, developing and healthy aging. The asset The approach supports a revitalisation of the roots of as shown, is now traditional public health articulated in the Ottawa Charter by bringing together a range of disciplines and ideas that focus on the positive. These include: but is revitalized thanks to the knowledge gained through the developed from the field of social medicine; positive , the sciences related to memental health. and public health non-traditional. It focuses on the optical non-pathogenic. It embraces the notion of That perspective also known as salutogenesis which ic perspective or positive health, emphasizes the origin of health and not on the origin of the disease. An asset to health can be defined as any factor or resource that empowers individuals, communities and populations to maintain health and wellbeingness. The asset model aims to To answer questions such aslike: Why do some people fall sick and others at happens to sick some thrive and others in similar situations? Where are the success factors for health?,. provided from the biopsychosocial approaches prevailing in the 80's, such as those associated with the creation and implementation of primary health care and community health, and conceptual frameworks related to social determinants of health are very important. In addition, the model of community assets (Kretzman & McKnight, 1993) is based on a methodology that emphasizes the development of policies and activities based on skills, abilities and resources of individuals and community strengths to discover skills and talents individual, collective and environmental concerns in the context. It is a different process to the practice of inventory and diagnose weaknesses of individuals and communities (traditionally used in health diagnoses). This approach recognizes that each community has talents, abilities, interests and experiences are a valuable arsenal that can be used and is a value context.

Comment [a1]: I like this but we need some way of saying that it has always been part of the Ottawa Charter

Comment [a2]: I dont understand this.

Comment [a3]: I like this phrase we have t develop it Comment [a4]: Not sure about this_

Comment [a5]: I think that is more tan empower

Comment [a6]: I dont understand this?

Work in this is not necessarily new for people who have been working in public health for over the last few decades but it is challenging for those working in policy, research and practice to shift the balance between the traditional deficit (or negative) approaches towards those which create opportunities necessary for attaining fulfilled any healthy lives.So work on this line in both research and teaching is a challenge for current and future public health.

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