Hazardous Substances HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND NEW DEVELOPMENT

HEALTH

IMPROVING HEALTH

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  Deliver safe, healthy and attractive places to live (PPS1 para. 16 and 27iii)(Creating Sustainable communities: building for the future p.5)
  
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  Improve health services and a reduction in the health gap (Urban White Paper para. 7.28)
  
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  The Governments key actions to improve health are:
  
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    Strengthening self-esteem, confidence and personal responsibility;
    
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    Positively promoting healthier behaviours and lifestyles, and adapting the environment to make healthy choices easier (Healthy Lives Healthy People paragraph 2.31)
    
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  The vision for us all must be a society where everyone is as active as they feel able, understands the impact of this on their health, taking responsibility both for how they travel and how they spend their spare time. Government, business, local communities and others will create urban and rural environments that make activity accessible, safe and the norm (Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives p.13).
  

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  Encourage partnership working between PCT and local government in order to bring together public health and community development skills. (Delivering choosing health. Making healthier choices easier, p5)(Prevention is still better than cure)
  
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  Salford aspires to commission and provide world class services. The PCT believes that enhanced Primary Care is essential to improve the health of Salford’s population and to reducing health inequalities. In order to achieve this objective the Strategy aims to increase the number of professionals in Primary Care, extend the roles of practitioners and enable integrated working both within and between services (PCT Estate Strategy 2008-2018 p64 and 65).
  
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  Promote health by providing more homes (good housing can improve physical and mental health), reducing obesity (by ensuring that local environments encourage physical activity), and reducing the amount of carbon emissions in a local areas (the public health implications of climate change include increases in stress through higher flood risk and health threats to vulnerable groups (Prevention is still better than cure p6)
  
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  Local Development Frameworks which fail to adequately consider health – from the evidence base through to planned provision of health infrastructure – will not be considered sound (prevention is still better than cure p10).
  
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  There are significant health gains to be made through the improvement of the housing stock (NW Regional Housing Strategy para 5.25)
  
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  Meet Central Governments National Public Service Agreement Floor Targets for Health (Delivering Choosing Health: making healthier choices easier, pg 17)
  
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  Ensure Salford City Council’s 2010 and 2020 health priority targets are met. (Health Inequalities in Salford- a local strategy for action, p23)
  
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  Improve the physical, emotional and mental well being of children and young people across the city. (Salford Children and Young People Plan, Chapter 3, p2)
  
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  A lack of toilet facilities at the right time in the right place contributes to dirty streets that are unsanitary, unpleasant and can spread infection. Public toilets in places like parks and promenades help to encourage people who may need regular toilet access to take exercise and stay physically active (Improving Public Access to Better Quality Toilets p15)
  
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  Salford will halt the rise of obesity across all age ranges by 2012 (Salford Healthy Weight Strategy p.7)
  

REDUCING HEALTH INEQUALITIES

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  Particular attention should be given to improving access to and addressing spatial disparities in health service and health facilities provision, in areas that have the greatest needs, or where communities or the local economy are poorly served. (RSS, Policy L1)
  

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  Deliver National Neighbourhood Renewal strategies, focusing on improving health inequalities. (Choosing Health: making healthier choices, Chapter 4, para 17)
  
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  Improve the economic prospects of adults in our most deprived communities by reducing the number of people with limiting illnesses and out of work due to health (GM Strategy p17)
  
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  Reduce the health gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of the country (Urban White Paper para. 7.28)
  
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  Reduce by at least 10% the gap between the 20 per cent of areas with the lowest life expectancy at birth and the population as a whole. (Regenerating a Great City, Salford’s Neighborhood Renewal Strategy, para 4.26)
  
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  Reduce, by at least 60% by 2010, the conception rate among under 18’s in the worst 20 per cent of wards, and thereby reduce the level of inequality between these areas and the average by at least 26% by 2010. (Regenerating a Great City, Salford’s Neighborhood Renewal Strategy, para 4.26)
  

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  Ensure the set up of a Health Inequalities Development Programme and produce Annual Health Inequalities Reports, in order to monitor and assess progress (Health Inequalities in Salford- a local strategy for action, p39 and 44)
  

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  Enhance drugs education, target ‘at risk’ local young people & ensure a fuller range of treatment provision. (Salford Drug and Alcohol Awareness Action Team, p9)
  

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