An analysis of English national policy approaches to health inequalities: 'transforming children and young people's mental health provision' and its consultation process.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A national policy for England, published in 2017, entitled 'Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision' aimed to address the increasing prevalence mental health problems in children and tackle inequalities. In the context of this policy's implementation as ongoing and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for appropriate, timely and ongoing national government commitment is vital.

Methods

A narrative review using a problem representation evaluation [1], we critiqued the policy and related consultation documents using a social determinants of health perspective. We also reviewed wider policy discourses through engaging with stakeholder responses, providing an innovative methodological contribution to scholarship on public health polic

SUBMITTER: Griffin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9153869 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature