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