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Law and Disorders - Findings from the LAW Survey

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New findings from the Legal AUstralia Wide Survey confirm a strong relationship between the experience of a broad range of everyday problems involving the law and long-term illness/disability. This relationship was generally evident for all of the types of illness/disability examined, although it was particularly strong for mental illness and it tended to strengthen as the severity of illness/disability increased.

The findings provide overwhelming support for the potential utility of integrated legal, health and broader human services. The new findings also provide strong support for the continued integration of legal, health and human services more generally, and for the further development of effective referral practices between such services.

In so far as illness and disability play a role in bringing about or exacerbating legal problems, the integration of legal and health services provides a means to secure early intervention to prevent problem escalation. In so far as legal problems cause illness or disability, the availability of legal help becomes directly relevant to health promotion, both in general and in relation to reducing health inequalities.
 

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