Thursday, March 1, 2018
This issue brief examines how legal services--delivered alongside medical and behavioral health services--can help support recovery from substance use disorders. The brief highlights case studies of individuals in recovery who were aided by medical-legal partnership services, and looks at how existing programs in Ohio, Indiana, and Nevada work. The brief offers a window into how legal services, integrated into existing recovery efforts, can play a role in alleviating the opioid crisis....Read More
Friday, December 1, 2017
This article traces the roots of the medical-legal partnership (MLP) approach to health as a way of promoting the use of law to remedy societal and institutional pathologies that lead to individual and population illness and to health inequalities. Given current forces at work - the medical care and public health systems' foctis on social determinants of health, the increased use of value-based medical care payment reforms, and the emerging movement to train the next generation of health care and public health professionals in structural competency - the time is ripe to spread the view that law is an important lens through which we should view health promotion, disease prevention, and overall well-being....Read More
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Article outlines how, why, and to what degree social determinants of health screening practices are used across MLPs. It finds that, despite the importance of identifying patients’ social and legal needs in order to improve health, systematic, protocol-driven screening is not yet being used to its fullest extent within these organizations....Read More
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Report describes the patients screened and treated by medical-legal partnerships in 2016, and how these programs advance health and wellbeing. It also offers insights into the organizations that participate in these programs....Read More
