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Priority Aims

Health and Wellbeing

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Health and Wellbeing
Aim

Work in partnership with the people of Hartlepool to promote and ensure the best possible health and wellbeing.


Outcomes and Objectives

Improved Health
• To support the people of Hartlepool in choosing a healthy lifestyle.

• To reduce early death and ill health caused by heart disease, strokes and cancers.

• To reduce drug, alcohol abuse and smoking and to enable people with related problems to overcome them.

• To strengthen and support communities with specific needs to improve their health, well-being and social inclusion.

Easier access to services
• To work together to provide high quality, convenient, accessible and co-ordinated services when people need them.

Exercise of choice and control and retention of personal dignity
• To ensure people are in control of decisions relating to their own health and wellbeing and can get the support and care they require when they need it.

• To provide real choice for people, so that they can make decisions about their own care and support.

• To value the work that carers do, promote carer awareness and social inclusion and improve the identification, range of support and training for carers.

Improved mental wellbeing
• To promote mental wellbeing, reduce suicide rates and support people with mental health problems.