Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2024
Abstract
Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) try to mitigate health inequity by uniting legal and health professionals to respond to legal determinants of patients’ health. While there is a long tradition of “patients-to-policy” work in MLPs, the current empirical evidence base has evaluated MLP effectiveness by assessing benefits to individual patients, clinicians, and hospital and legal systems. This article calls for future research to measure how community power, which includes shifting power to impacted communities to develop and lead equity-focused agendas, is built as both a process and an outcome of MLPs.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Bhatnagar, Prashasti; Perry, Deborah F.; and Greer, Margaret E., "How Should We Measure Effectiveness of Medical-Legal Partnerships?" (2024). HJA Scholarship. 2.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/hja_scholarship/2
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Comments
AMA Journal of Ethics, Vol. 26, Number 8, E626-633. DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.626. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-should-we-measure-effectiveness-medical-legal-partnerships/2024-08
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