The Homeodynamic Health Model according to Pazer

In the current theoretical and practical landscape, health is a multi-layered, but often vaguely defined term. The homeodynamic health model according to Pazer proposes a new conceptual order in which health is understood as a dynamically graded ability for self-regulation, adaptation and existential development. In contrast to dichotomous or static models, the present concept defines five functional and anthropologically differentiated phases: survival, conservation, adaptation, high performance and generativity. These stages describe qualitative differences in the integration of physiological, psychological and existential processes. The model integrates systems theory, salutogenetic and anthropological perspectives and enables in-depth functional diagnostics as well as step-oriented intervention logic in medicine, psychotherapy, public health, coaching and educational work. Methodologically, it is a structuring heuristic that requires empirical operationalization and validation but can already make an integrative contribution to a scientifically based understanding of health. In a time of fragmentation of the concept of health, this model argues for a return to a holistic, developmentally oriented anthropology of viability.