Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Low-income individuals with cancer diagnoses commonly experience psychosocial barriers to care. This article describes how legal solutions can help to minimize these obstacles, yet how patients rarely have access to legal services. The authors suggest that training patient navigators to appropriately screen for legal issues and collaborate with attorneys can help prevent, rather than just react to, legal issues by addressing them as a part of a treatment plan....Read More
Friday, February 1, 2013
This article describes the collaboration between a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) community-based psychosocial rehabilitation center and a nonprofit legal center that primarily addresses the civil legal issues of veterans who have mental illness and/or are homeless. ...Read More
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
This article examines how a pediatric-based medical-legal partnership identified and treated a cluster of 16 substandard housing units. Of the 45 children living in those unit, 36 percent had asthma, 33 percent had developmental delay or behavioral disorder, and 9 percent had an elevated lead level. The MLP was able to make repairs to the majority of the units and improve home environmental conditions for these children....Read More
Monday, November 5, 2012
An Arizona study assessed the stress levels of patients before and after receiving legal services, and found that MLP intervention led to a reduction in perceived stress and an improvement in overall wellbeing. ...Read More
