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1. World Health Organization. What is Mental Health? Avaiable at: http://www.who.int/features/qa/62/en.  Accessed March 31, 2014.

2. Keyes CM. The Mental Health Continuum: From languishing to flourishing in life. Journal of Health and Social Research 2002; 43(June): 207-22.

3. Keyes CLM, Simoes EJ. To flourish or not: Positive mental health and all-cause mortality. American Journal of Public Health 2012; 102(11): 2164-72.

4. Keyes CLM, Eisenberg D, Perry GS, et al. The relationship of level of positive mental health with current mental disorders in predicting suicidal behavior and academic impairment in college students. Journal of American College Health 2012; 60(2): 126-33.

5. Grant F, Guille C, Sen S. Well-being and the risk of depression under stress. PLOS One 2013; 8(7): e67395.

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7. Keyes CLM. Promoting and protecting mental health as flourishing. A complementary strategy for improving national mental health. American Psychologist 2007; 62(2): 95-108.

8. Keyes, CLM. The nexus of cardiovascular disease and depression revisited:  The complete mental health perspective and the moderating role of age and gender. Aging and Mental Health 2004; 8: 266-74.

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