Motivation in the River of Life
Introduction
From the lower part of the waterfall, the healing perspective of the diseases would imply saving the individuals of drowning, which entails high -cost professionals and technological tools. A step above would be health protection, in which interventions would have the objective of avoiding the risks of getting sick, granting the person a passive role in the process. If we take it to the metaphor, the key would be to place barriers to the river to avoid falling into it.
Developing
Disease prevention aims to avoid them from the active participation of people themselves. In the metaphor would result in giving life jackets to avoid drowning. Following the current of the waterfall, health education would be lent with professionals capable of informing both both health risks, offering advice on how to live to maintain it and to avoid these risks. Over time it would be achieved that people participate more.
Becoming able to make autonomous decisions with the support of professionals. Metaphor transferred the objective would reside to teach people to swim. In health promotion, the responsibility for action extends beyond the health sector. This would be understood as a human right that would be achieved by coordinating society as a whole. In this case the individual becomes an active, conscious and participant subject.
Professionals would have the mission of supporting and offering alternatives for people to make their own decisions. The objective would be to provide learning and knowledge about health. Salutogenesis would therefore be understood as the improvement of the quality of life and well -being through the creation or facilitation of the necessary conditions for the development of a healthy life. The purpose would be to reflect on the available options that generate health and that improve the quality of life of individuals.
That is, swimming properly, knowing in advance the options and conditions of the river current. At birth people fall to the river and float with the current, but the main direction of life is not death or disease as represented in the metaphor with the waterfall. Certain individuals are born on the side opposite to the waterfall, where they can float comfortably, the opportunities of life are beneficial and have many resources at their disposal, being in a stable welfare state.
conclusion
On the other hand, other people are born near the waterfall, on the side of the disease, where the struggle for survival is more difficult and the risk of falling sick is greater. In short, the reflection of Antonovsky’s metaphor is that the river is full of risks, but in turn also of resources, and therefore the success of the journey through the river of life is based on people’s ability to Recognize and to know how to take advantage of the available resources with the aim of improving health options, and after all, the quality of life.
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