Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2024
DOI
10.1001/amajethics.2024.596
Abstract
Health justice as a movement incorporates research about how to more effectively leverage law, policy, and institutions to dismantle inequitable power distributions and accompanying patterns of marginalization that are root causes of health inequity. Legal advocacy is key to health justice because it addresses patients’ health-harming legal needs in housing, public benefits, employment, education, immigration, domestic violence, and other areas of law. In medical-legal partnerships, lawyers and clinicians are uniquely positioned to jointly identify and remove legal barriers to patients’ health, advocate for structural reform, and build community power.
Publication Citation
AMA Journal of Ethics, August 2024, Volume 26, Number 8, Pp. E596-604. DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.596.
AMA Journal of Ethics, Copyright 2024 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
The AMA Journal of Ethics® is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Cannon, Yael Zakai, "How Is Access to Legal Resources and Advocacy Foundational to Health Justice?" (2024). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2632.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2632
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