Friday, July 14, 2017
This article is a review of observational studies, published from January 1993-January 2016, to investigate the capacity of medical-legal partnerships to address legal and health disparities. The authors identified 13 articles for qualitative analysis from an initial pool of 355 records, four of which directly addressed the impact of MLP intervention on patient wellbeing and/or patient utilization of health care services....Read More
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
A study comparing patients who received a medical-legal partnership (MLP) intervention to a comparison group found that the MLP group were more likely to achieve adequate, affordable, and stable housing than those in a comparison group....Read More
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Pediatric care facilities are increasingly incorporating social determinants of health into the way they structure the treatment of children, particularly those living below the poverty line. In this Pediatrics artiicle, the authors discuss the success of medical-legal partnership services in reducing stress, improving overall health and well-being, and leading community-level change to improve health care....Read More
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center examined how local agencies that enforce housing policies can partner with the health care organizations to pinpoint potential clusters of high asthma morbidity....Read More
