Instead we are setting tougher but attainable targets in priority areas. If we achieve these targets, we have the opportunity to save lives by preventing up to 300,000 untimely and unnecessary deaths . In securing better health, we reject the old arguments of the past. We want to see a new balance in which people, communities and Government work together in partnership to improve health. But new problems arise, including AIDS and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
People can improve their own health, through physical activity, better diet and quitting smoking.
Individuals and their families need to be properly informed about risk to make decisions. As well as taking action on our key targets, we are also tackling other important health issues like sexual health, drugs, alcohol, food safety, water fluoridation and communicable diseases - to put our new approach into practice . For partnership to work, public health will need high standards , and for public health to be improved, it will need success measures . We want to see healthier people in a healthier country . People improving their own health supported by communities working through local organisations against a backdrop of action by the Government .