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Psychiatric morbidity and people's experience of and response to social problems involving rights
- Authors:
- BALMER Nigel J., PLEASENCE Pascoe, BUCK Alexy
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 18(6), November 2010, pp.588-597.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Psychiatric morbidity is associated with the increased reporting of a range of social problems involving legal rights. Using a validated measure of psychiatric morbidity, this study investigates the relationship between psychiatric morbidity and rights problems and discusses the implications for the delivery of health and legal services. New representative national survey data from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey (CSJS) surveyed 3,040 adults in 2007 to explore the relationship between the self-reported incidence of and behaviour surrounding, rights problems. It was found that the prevalence of rights problems increased with psychiatric morbidity, as did the experience of multiple problems. It was also found the likelihood of inaction in the face of problems increased with psychiatric morbidity, while the likelihood of choosing to resolve problems without help decreased. Where advice was obtained, psychiatric morbidity was associated with a greater tendency to obtain a combination of `legal' and `general' support, rather than legal advice alone. The authors suggest that integrated and outreach services are important to the effective support of those facing mental illness.
Mental health and the experience of housing problems involving rights
- Authors:
- PLEASENCE Pascoe, BALMER Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- People Place and Policy Online, 2(1), 2008, Online only
- Publisher:
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
The incidence of housing problems involving rights is linked closely to long-term illness/disability and broader social exclusion. Drawing on data from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey this article explores the extent to which housing rights problems and mental illness co-occur, and the causal connections between them. After controlling for a range of social and demographic predictors, significant associations were found between housing rights problems and mental illness. It was also found that housing rights problems were often reported to lead to stress related illness. It is argued that effective co-ordination of mental health and housing rights advice services is likely to improve both health and justice outcomes.