Medical-Legal Partnerships: Transforming Primary Care By Addressing The Legal Needs Of Vulnerable Populations
Medical-Legal Partnerships: Transforming Primary Care By Addressing The Legal Needs Of Vulnerable Populations
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0038
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Zuckerman, Barry
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作者：
Sandel, Megan;Hansen, Mark;Zuckerman, Barry
当患者得不到旨在解决住房和食品等社会健康决定因素的法律的好处时，医疗保健就会受到破坏。医疗-法律合作伙伴关系目前存在于美国200多个诊所，将律师纳入医疗保健领域，以解决造成并持续健康状况不佳的法律问题。本文描述了这种医疗-法律合作伙伴关系如何改变临床系统-例如，通过在电子健康记录中添加法律格式信函来帮助低收入患者纠正不合标准的住房条件。我们建议将医疗-法律合作伙伴关系纳入联邦医疗保健计划。
Health care is undermined when patients don't receive the benefit of laws intended to address social determinants of health, such as housing and food. Medical-legal partnerships, which now exist in more than 200 clinical sites in the United States, integrate lawyers into health care to address legal problems that create and perpetuate poor health. This paper describes how such medical-legal partnerships can change clinical systems-for example, by adding legal form letters to electronic health records to help low-income patients rectify substandard housing conditions. We recommend the integration of medical-legal partnerships into federal health care programs.