*** Interesting debate going on on another listserv. Michel O'Neill. ***

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>Date:         Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:20:48 +0100
>Reply-To: "Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Researchers."
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>Sender: "Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Researchers."
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>From: Ilona Kickbusch <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      WHo definition of health
>To: Multiple recipients of list HEALTH-PROMOTION
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>     You might be interested to know that as part of the process of "Review
>     of the Constitution of the World Health Organization" the Exectutive
>     Board of WHO has proposed to propose the following definition of
>     health to the World Health Assembly in May 1998:
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>     "Health is a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual and
>     social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
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>     Ilona Kickbusch


Une tres bonne journee.

Michel O'Neill, Ph.D.

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