[Nursing relevance of the bases of the concept of Salutogenesis].
The objectives of nursing are closely tied with the meaning of health. This means for the development of nursing science to come to an understanding of new concepts of health which have been developed in health sciences recently. Therefore the model of Salutogenese is presented. The author discusses the key concepts like the health-disease-continuum, the sense of coherence and the generalized resistance resources in regard to relevance for nursing in theory and practise.