Article: A public/private partnership to address asthma

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

By Ted Kremer, Monica Lowell, & Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham Health Affairs blog

In Worcester, Massachusetts, more than one in ten children suffers from asthma. Recently the city’s civil legal aid organization, health care institutions, and the city Department of Public Health began using a multi-sector medical-legal partnership approach to address housing and clinical needs of high-risk asthma patients. This post on the Health Affairs blog describes that partnership and their early findings.