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We will promote eating well and keeping active The Ministry of Health will implement the Healthy Families New Zealand initiative. The initiative will support communities to strengthen existing health promotion efforts to encourage families to live healthy and active lives Ministry of Health, DHBs, NGOs More people will have access to easily understood and nationally consistent information resources More people will be making healthy food and activity choices and sustaining healthy weights More people will be aware of cancer risks and will be doing something about them We will implement smoking cessation initiatives in hospitals and in primary care Health professionals working in hospitals and primary care will advice and support to quit smoking to their patients who smoke Health professionals will also offer pregnant women who smoke advice and support to quit smoking DHBs, primary health organisations, lead maternity carers Fewer people will be smoking We will implement a prostate cancer awareness and quality improvement programme The Ministry of Health, with DHBs and primary care organisations, will develop and distribute high-quality prostate cancer information resources The Ministry of Health will develop prostate cancer standards and draft guidelines Ministry of Health, DHBs, primary health organisations More people will have access to easily understood and nationally consistent information resources We will improve coverage and service delivery of bowel, breast and cervical screening programmes and reduce barriers to access Bowel screening The Ministry of Health will monitor the Bowel Screening Pilot on a quarterly basis against agreed performance indicators An independent evaluation will assess the success of the Screening Pilot and provide information on the viability of a national bowel screening programme Ministry of Health, service providers, Waitemata DHB, BreastScreen Aotearoa lead providers More people across all population groups will be screened for breast and cervical cancer
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