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Question: In the UK and worldwide, unprecedented pressure on the health and social care systems has led to a refocus on public health and related inequalities. Health policy analysis is needed to prepare health and social care systems to reduce disparities between population groups. Your role as a health and social care practitioner is to identify local issues related to inequalities and present your findings back to the local Health and Wellbeing Board. Produce a report using a health inequality model as an underlying framework, to examine the determinants of health specific to your chosen health issue Musculoskeletal condition in Lewisham. Explore the relationship between the determinants of health with relevant evidence (National and Local Get Instant Help!). Identify, analyse and critique strategies for improvement from a theoretical perspective such as the Social or Medical model.

The strategies identified can be drawn from outside the chosen local area, but should demonstrate how they could be applied to the local area to reduce the health inequalities related to the chosen health issue. Page 3 of 9 For example, the report will contain an inequality model, such as the DahlgrenWhitehead Rainbow Model (1991) and examine improvement strategies from a theoretical perspective such as the Social or Medical model. Throughout the report, you should focus on the local inequalities related to the chosen health issue. The report should conclude with recommendations based on your findings