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The World Health Organisation (WHO) in it's constitution defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease of infirmity".(WHO,1948). The Ottawa Charter was the result of the first international conference on health promotion held in 1986 Ottawa, Canada by the World Health Organisation. They defined health promotion as "the process of helping people to increase control over and improve their health"(WHO, 1986). Health promotion must therefore have an holistic view of health and of the determinants of ill health, not withstanding the individual's choice in determining what being healthy means for them, and built upon the idea and process of self empowering that individual or community to achieve better health. The Ottawa Charter identified Public Policy with a key role to play in health promotion, and recognized that improvements in health required a secure foundation in the following basic prerequisites : "Peace,...

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