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National Anti-Poverty Strategy

National Anti-Poverty Strategy

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Health - Your Opinion Counts

The National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS) is a Government initiative to reduce poverty, inequality and social exclusion. As part of this strategy, the Government wants to improve the health of people experiencing poverty or disadvantage, and reduce health inequalities. A Working Group has been set up by the Department of Health and Children to recommend relevant targets for NAPS and this work is being supported by the Institute of Public Health.

We would like to hear from the public on these issues.

If you have any views on the kind of targets that should be set, or on what kind of issues the Working Group should consider as part of its work, we would like to hear from you, in writing, by email, through our comment line or on tape - see how to contact us.

Note that the Working Group aims to set targets which will:

  • improve health for people in poverty or experiencing social exclusion and reduce health inequalities
  • reduce poverty and social exclusion arising from or contributing to poor health
  • increase equity of access to health and personal social services
  • ensure that government policies in other areas support these goals
  • be based on relevant information and research data.

In your reply, you may wish to consider the prompt questions which are available at prompt questions.

This call for submissions is one part of a wider consultation process.

Further information is available at consultation process.

The results of this exercise will be one of the elements which will feed into the development of the new National Health Strategy.