Subjective health indicators and health promotion

This article gives an account of subjective (perceived) healthmeasurement based upon the development and use of an indicatorknown as the Nottingham Health Profile, an instrument that aimsto show the subjective elements of the experience of healthand illness by using the ordinary language of the intended respondent.The author discusses the possibility of using subjective healthindicators for the assessment of health promotion activitiesand examines ways in which these indicators might be used inhealth promotion research.