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
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
Saturday, April 1, 2017
This article describes the development and operations of medical-legal partnerships at four Veterans Health Administration medical centers that serve veterans who are homeless or who have serious mental illness. The authors briefly report on the characteristics of 700 veterans served by these MLPs from 2014 to 2016, and discuss how MLPs can fit within the interdisciplinary, comprehensive system of care provided by VHA....Read More
