Understanding Public Health: Productive Processing of Internal and External Reality

This book develops a new model of the genesis of health, on the basis of the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Hurrelmann and Richter build upon the basic theories of health and the popular model of salutogenesis to offer a comprehensive interdisciplinary theory of health genesis and success: Productive Processing of Reality (PPR).

The authors show that health is the lifelong dynamic process of dealing with the internal reality of physical and psychological impulses and th...