Tackling health inequalities: 2007 Status Report on the Programme for Action March 13, 2008
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Tackling health inequalities: 2007 Status Report on the Programme for Action provides a review of developments against the data since the publication of the Programme for Action in 2003. It considers progress against the Public Service Agreement (PSA) target, the national headline indicators and against government commitments. The report shows:
- Further slight narrowing of the infant mortality gap, little change in the gap in male
life expectancy and a widening of the gap in female life expectancy since 2003–05.
- An encouraging picture on the cross-government indicators, with long-term progress in reducing child poverty and narrowing inequalities in housing quality, educational
attainment and uptake of flu vaccinations. Cancer and circulatory (heart) disease
mortality, child road accident casualties and teenage conceptions show a narrowing of
inequalities in absolute terms (but not in relative terms); other areas, for example
smoking, show a general reduction in prevalence but no narrowing of the gap between social groups
- Most departmental commitments set out in the Programme for Action and due for
delivery by the end of 2006 have been wholly or substantially achieved.
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