The document discusses the work of Eriksson and Lindstrom on salutogenesis and its importance for public health and health promotion. It summarizes the key contributions of their work, including providing a conceptual framework for understanding health in the 21st century and improving reasoning and clarity in health promotion approaches. It also discusses how their work has helped reframe health promotion to focus more on human resilience and the meaning of life events. The author expresses gratitude for how Eriksson and Lindstrom have helped refocus policies and interventions through the lens of salutogenesis and assets. He asks for their advice on studying sense of coherence in childhood and health assets in communities.

1. The Salutogenic Perspective.
Lindstrom B; Eriksson M.
Folkhälsan research centre. Finland.
About The Salutogenic Perspective
Mariano Hernán.
Andalusian School of Public Health. Spain
Syposium. Health Assets for Young People´s Wellbeing.
Seville. Spain. 28‐30April.

2. It is a honour for me to be with you and to live this
moment.
Although I must say that Eriksson and Lindstrom are
responsible for my long sleepless nights,
because some days I make classes with my students
to understand the relationship between Salutogenesis
and Health Promotion.
Hernán M.
About The Salutogenic Perspective
Andalusian School of Public Health

3. The accuracy and precision with which both researchers
reviewed the evidence is serving us to have a conceptual
framework that explains the twenty‐first century public
health.
I am a regular reader of their work, and I confess that my
approach to the Health Promotion for children has
improved in reasoning, clarity and ownership of a
benchmarking framework.
Workers in the health promotion and youth can now
discuss their thoughts more clearly, from the reviews and
original contributions of Eriksson and Lindstrom.

4. I discovered the work of Antonovsky in 1990 (almost 40
years after their initial research on SOC) ; “The river of life”
led me to Eriksson and Lindstrom.
“The river of life” again, led me to Antony Morgan in 1994.
And also to the network of Professor Palacios and
Professor Moreno. They've given me a lot of assets for
learning.
Morgan and Ziglio in 2007 have provided an excellent
analysis to revitalize health promotion through the Asset
Model in addition to the Deficit Model.

5. The Ericsson and Lindstrom team has turned the paradigm
of health promotion to a new and deeper location. They
have turned the idea of "making healthy choices easier"
into a rigorous and comprehensive construction linked to
human endurance, understanding, management, and the
meaning of life events.
Today it is not possible to promote health from a unique
perspective of knowledge. To reveal the mystery of health,
we are required to relate: the psychology of learning and
developmental psychology, mental health, medicine and
biology, science education, social science and spirituality.

6. Thanks for making easier for us to understand and
develop the theory and practice of Salutogenesis and its
relation with Health Promotion.
And thanks for coming to Andalusia to show new ways
to help us to refocus our policies, plans, programs,
actions and interventions; with the support of
Salutogenesis and assets.

7. Two questions:
1 What is your advice for us to study the Sense of
Coherence and health in Childhood?
Focus, methodologies, contents…
2 What to do now to study health assets in the
community?
Assets maps, different context, cultures, internet and social net…
Thank you very much
Mariano Hernán