The Department of Health's targets, which are due to be published as part of the Government's comprehensive spending review, were leaked last week.
Ron Griffiths, president of the Faculty of Public Health, called the move a "first step" but warned it would be undermined if it were not "mapped across the people who will be contributing to it".
For example, to increase activity in children's lives, the issue of how children were transported to school needed to be targeted more aggressively involving the transport, environment and health departments.
The DoH said it was not able to comment on leaked targets and said they had not been signed off yet.
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