What percentage of people in the (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) East Dunbartonshire local authority area have improved their health by (i)…

The Executive is taking a number of actions aimed at improving health for children and young people, including all our work to tackle smoking. One of the main factors in smoking prevention for young people will be the introduction of the smoke-free public places legislation in March 2006. This will help de-normalise smoking in Scottish society and help protect young people from the health risks associated with second-hand smoke. In respect of diet, we have mature policies in place. Hungry for Success ensures healthier school meals with minimum nutritional standards are available to school children and we are providing free fruit to primary school children. In addition, reducing harmful drinking by children and young people is one of the key priorities in our Plan for Action on Alcohol.
(i)(1) Smoking:
The following table shows the percentage of cigarette smokers aged 16 years and over in East and West Dunbartonshire between 1999-2000 and 2003-04.

| West Dunbartonshire
| East Dunbartonshire

1999-2000
| 31
| 22

2001-02
| 33
| 19

2003-04
| 30
| 18

% change 1999-2000 to 2003-04
| -3
| -18

Source: Scottish Household Survey.
Note: The earliest data which are available from the Scottish Household Survey is for 1999. There is no available source which provides sufficient numbers to extract meaningful results prior to this. The sample is designed to provide data for each local authority over a two year period.
(i)(2) Alcohol Misuse:
Information on discharges from general acute and psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of an alcohol-related condition during 1996-97 to 2001-02 is shown in table 1. Complete data on psychiatric discharges is unavailable for 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05. Table 2 shows the information requested from 1996-97 to 2004-05 for discharges from general acute hospitals only.
Table 1: Scottish Hospital1,2 Discharge Records for West and East Dunbartonshire Residents with an Explicit Diagnosis3 of an Alcohol-Related Condition: 1996-97 to 2001-02

| West Dunbartonshire
| East Dunbartonshire

1996-97
| 689
| 508

1997-98
| 777
| 507

1998-99
| 858
| 564

1999-00
| 1033
| 576

2000-01
| 990
| 568

2001-02
| 947
| 502

Notes:
1. Includes acute hospitals, mental illness hospitals and psychiatric units (but excludes maternity hospitals).
2. Information on hospital discharge relates to episodes of in-patient or day case care rather than individual patients. The same patient may account for several hospital admissions during the course of a year (or across years) and will be counted each time in the above table. Transfer c