Bibliography: p. 229-246 Includes index Prologue: Evolution of a new perspective -- One: Studying health instead of disease -- Two: Measuring health on a continuum -- Three: Stressors, tension, and stress -- Four: Tension management and resource for resistance -- Five: Perceiving the world as coherent -- Six: Relation of the sense of coherence to health -- Seven: The salutogenic model of health -- Eight: Implications for an improved health care system -- Epilogue: Outlook for human health