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• Revise the Action Plan for Tobacco Control.
• Develop a smoking policy for the Derwentside Partnership.
• Review and implement a new model of smoking cessation services in Derwentside.
• Support pregnant mothers to stop smoking.
• Create more smoke free public areas.
• Reduce smoking in manual groups.

• The national target is to reduce smoking rates among manual groups from 32% to 26% by 2010 from the 1998 baseline. The local target is to have 1,530 people from all groups in Derwentside successfully quitting at four weeks by 2006.
• The local target is to reduce the proportion of women who continue to smoke throughout pregnancy by 1% per year, with the proportion of women continuing to smoke in pregnancy falling from 22.7% in 2002 to 18.6% in 2006.

• Develop an Accident Prevention Strategy.
• Develop a Falls Prevention Strategy.
• Implement the Mental Health Promotion Strategy.
• Implement the “5 A Day” Programme.
• Drug Action Team to develop an Alcohol Strategy.
• Improve the health of adults via the “Working for Health Award”, a healthy workplace initiative.
• Extend the breast screening service to women aged 65 to 70.

• To reduce the death rates from the causes below by 2010 from a 1997 baseline:

  accidents and suicide (and undetermined injury) by at least a fifth.
  coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke in people under 75 years of age by at least two-fifths.
  cancer in people under 75 years of age by at least one fifth.

• Increase awareness of healthier lifestyles.
• Develop programmes to promote health.
• Encourage participation in physical activities.
• Strengthen support to voluntary sports clubs.
• Review the level and quality of facilities.
• Work to reduce levels of child obesity.

• Increase numbers of residents undertaking physical activity to 70%.
  

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