This article endeavours to make public health professionals aware of key priorities for promoting positive health based on the Ottawa Charter. The authors recommend the use of optimum or positive health indicators. They argue that in so doing we may see a paradigm shift in our thinking away from purely sickness and ill health, towards more positive visions of health.
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