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Returning to the river: the salutogenic model as a theory to explore the relation between outdoor activities and health
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Movement, Culture and Society. Inland Norway Univ Appl Sci, Dept Publ Hlth & Sport Sci, Elverum, Norway.. (REMO)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8748-8843
Dalarna Univ, Sch Hlth & Welf, Falun, Sweden.;Oslo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Primary & Secondary Teacher Educ, Oslo, Norway..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4660-717X
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Movement, Culture and Society. (REMO)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9141-3318
2024 (English)In: Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, ISSN 1472-9679, E-ISSN 1754-0402Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

An ongoing discussion is a debate about the benefits of outdoor activities for health, where a narrowness regarding the benefits as a matter of curing or preventing disease has been questioned. Hence, there is an urgent need to theorize further the relationship between outdoor activities and health with robust theoretical frameworks that can guide research and practice, taking different aspects of human-nature relations into account. In the paper, a critique of pathogenic perspectives of health is forwarded, as well as a critique of an anthropocentric human centeredness of health. Instead, a salutogenic model and the metaphor of the swimmer in the river is used to discuss the relation without being restricted to health as the absence of disease or to human health and wellbeing. In the paper, seven different relations, or salutogenic questions, are provided, moving from the swimmer in the foreground, to swimmers in the river to finally foregrounding the river.

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Taylor & Francis, 2024.
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Salutogenesis, outdoor education, friluftsliv, health, more-than-human health
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Sport and Fitness Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-8215DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2024.2342305ISI: 001204580800001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:gih-8215DiVA, id: diva2:1858532
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