Holistic approaches to reaching and assisting clients experiencing vulnerability or disadvantage - Health Justice Partnerships in Australia and beyond - with a focus on the emerging value of secondary consultations

This paper will examine the emergence of Health Justice Partnerships (HJP) in Australia and will discuss some research being undertaken by Dr Curran, to not only measure service effectiveness but to also examine and measure positive outcomes and any progress in the social determinants of health as a result of the intervention. The literature identifies a gap as to how one might measure these broader outcomes. Dr Curran has taken the bull by the horns and has formulated strategies examining and measuring the broader impact of legal interventions on social and health outcomes when situated in a health setting and where there is an endeavour to integrate legal services with non-legal services. At the time of writing this pre-paper in early May 2015, the analysis of the most recent data findings from the HJP trial snapshot research which occurred in late April 2015 is under way and so the conference paper in July will be informed by the outcomes of this research when it is analysed.