[Health resources--potentials and how to utilise them].

Studies analysing resources refer to Aaron Antonovsky's salutogenetic theory. Contrasting risk research and salutogenesis, three problems concerning methodology and concepts are illustrated in this paper: the lack of a positive definition of health, the conceptual gap between indicators of health and influencing factors, and the relation between risk and resources. Starting points to promote health focussing on personal, micro, meso and macro levels are discussed in the second section of the paper. Future interventions will have to interact on different levels and in theory and practice interfaces with other experts will have to be defined. The paper concludes with a plea for developing a health promotion scheme based on evidence.