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01.05.2010 | Innovations in Education

Medical-Legal Partnership: Collaborating with Lawyers to Identify and Address Health Disparities

verfasst von: Ellen Cohen, MD, Danya Fortess Fullerton, Randye Retkin, JD, Dana Weintraub, MD, Pamela Tames, JD, Julie Brandfield, JD, Megan Sandel, MD, MPH

Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Sonderheft 2/2010

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Abstract

Introduction

Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) bring together medical professionals and lawyers to address social causes of health disparities, including access to adequate food, housing and income.

Setting

Eighty-one MLPs offer legal services for patients whose basic needs are not being met.

Program Description

Besides providing legal help to patients and working on policy advocacy, MLPs educate residents (29 residency programs), health care providers (160 clinics and hospitals) and medical students (25 medical schools) about how social conditions affect health and screening for unmet basic needs, and how these needs can often be impacted by enforcing federal and state laws. These curricula include medical school courses, noon conferences, advocacy electives and CME courses.

Program Evaluation

Four example programs are described in this paper. Established MLPs have changed knowledge (MLP | Boston—97% reported screening for two unmet needs), attitudes (Stanford reported reduced concern about making patients “nervous” with legal questions from 38% to 21%) and behavior (NY LegalHealth reported increasing resident referrals from 15% to 54%) after trainings. One developing MLP found doctors experienced difficulty addressing social issues (NJ LAMP—67% of residents felt uncomfortable).

Discussion

MLPs train residents, students and other health care providers to tackle socially caused health disparities.

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Titel: Medical-Legal Partnership: Collaborating with Lawyers to Identify and Address Health Disparities
verfasst von: Ellen Cohen, MD
Danya Fortess Fullerton
Randye Retkin, JD
Dana Weintraub, MD
Pamela Tames, JD
Julie Brandfield, JD
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2010
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe Sonderheft 2/2010
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-009-1239-7

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