Scottish Household Survey Annual Report 2007 Web Tables - Health and Caring
Improving health is one of the Scottish Government's five strategic objectives: Help people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care.
This is supported by the national outcome: "we live longer, healthier lives". A series of 45 national indicators and targets has been devised to help assess progress towards achieving these national outcomes and strategic objectives. A number of these outcomes and indicators are directly related to health and health-related behaviours. For example, the following target has been set in relation to smoking: Reduce the percentage of the adult population who smoke to 22% by 2010. The Scottish Household Survey will be used to monitor progress towards this target.
Although other sources of data on health in Scotland exist, such as the Scottish Health Survey, the long time-series and relatively large sample sizes available from the Scottish Household Survey mean that it is currently better placed than other surveys to monitor progress towards the smoking reduction target and to provide data for derivation of other national indicators (such as the use of self-assessed health for the derivation of healthy life expectancy).
At present, there are no web tables available for Caring. They will follow in due course.
Please view the web tables for health by downloading the Excel workbook from the File Download option below.
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