Targets
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Supporting info.
National targets have been set by Government to reduce inequalities in life expectancy, circulatory diseases and cancers. They are:
* Two different measures of inequality are specified in the national targets. For life expectancy, the relative gap is used, and for circulatory diseases and cancers, the absolute gap is used.
Locally, the Newcastle Partnerships Local Area Agreement 2008 - 2011 contains the following health inequalities target:
