Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative - Framework for the Drivers of Health Inequalities

Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative Framework for the Drivers of Health Inequalities The Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) is a partnership between the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), Barnardo’s and three Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), Birmingham and Solihull, Cheshire and Merseyside, and South Yorkshire. [...] To guide the analysis of data and the development of indicators to assess and monitor inequalities in children and young people’s health and wellbeing and their determinants of health in each ICS. [...] To support and guide ICSs in the commissioning and development of interventions and services to improve children and young peoples’ health and wellbeing. [...] Most of the levers for changing the socioeconomic and political context are outside the remit of the CHEC but it is important to note that advocacy is an important lever which the CHEC can use to influence socioeconomic and political systems and point out the impacts on the health of children and young people. [...] Core20PLUS5 For ICSs, the links between the CHEC framework and the NHS Core20PLUS5 approach to support the reduction of health inequalities among children and young people are important to articulate and understand.37 The focus on social determinants in the CHEC underpin the objectives of Core20PLUS5 and other NHS health inequality approaches.