Medical-Legal Partnership: A Powerful Tool for Public Health and Health Justice

A medical-legal partnership (MLP) is a collaboration between a health care organization and a public interest law firm organization to address health-harming social needs that have civil law remedies. MLPs can improve patient health outcomes, improive patient well-being, improve patient adherence to...

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Published in:Public health reports (1974) 2019-03, Vol.134 (2), p.201-205
Main Authors: Tobin-Tyler, Elizabeth, Teitelbaum, Joel B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Cooperative Behavior
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Health care
Health care policy
Health Services Accessibility - organization & administration
Health Status
Hospitals
Housing - organization & administration
Humans
Interinstitutional Relations
Justice
Law and the Public’s Health
Legal medicine
Low income groups
Medical treatment
Medication Adherence
Mental Health
Partnerships
Population levels
Poverty - statistics & numerical data
Public concern
Public health
Public Health - methods
Social Work - organization & administration
Stress, Psychological - prevention & control
Well being
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Summary:A medical-legal partnership (MLP) is a collaboration between a health care organization and a public interest law firm organization to address health-harming social needs that have civil law remedies. MLPs can improve patient health outcomes, improive patient well-being, improve patient adherence to recommend medical treatment, remove barriers to health care for low-income families by addressing cost and insurance concerns, and increase access for individuals and families to stable housing and other social supports. We contend that MLPs can operate at both the individual and population levels. We begin by providing a brief overview of of MLPs and then turn to a discussion of MLPs as a public health law intervention.
ISSN:0033-3549
1468-2877
DOI:10.1177/0033354918824328