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When law is good for your health

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New paper from Hazel Genn, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Executive Director of the Centre for Access to Justice, Faculty of Laws UCL:

As the legal sector seeks to find ways of alleviating the crisis in access to justice and the health sector struggles to reduce health inequalities, an understanding of the link between law and health offers some opportunities in both fields of endeavour.

Many social determinants of health manifest at community and individual level as legal needs, or as social needs with legal dimensions. Unmet legal needs in the form of adverse social conditions with a legal remedy are social determinants of health ....

When Law is Good for Your Health: Mitigating the social determinants of health through access to justice