Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Veterans in Connecticut and New York who accessed legal services showed significant improvements in housing, income, and mental health during a two-year study. Veterans who received more medical-legal partnership services showed greater improvements in housing and mental health than those who received fewer services, and those who achieved their predefined legal goals showed greater improvements in housing status and community integration than those who did not....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
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
In 2011, the authors implemented a four-session didactic interprofessional curriculum on medical–legal practice for third-year medical students at Morehouse School of Medicine. This program, also attended by law students, focused on interprofessional collaboration to address client/patient social determinant of health (SDOH) issues and health-harming legal needs. Postintervention survey results indicated that students self-reported an increased likelihood to screen patients for SDOH issues and an increased likelihood to refer patients to a legal resource....Read More
