How Should We Measure Effectiveness of Medical-Legal Partnerships?

Q2 Social Sciences

AMA journal of ethics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1001/amajethics.2024.626

Prashasti Bhatnagar, Deborah F Perry, Margaret E Greer

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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.

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如何衡量医学与法律合作的有效性？

医疗-法律合作伙伴关系（MLPs）试图通过联合法律和医疗专业人士来应对影响患者健康的法律决定因素，从而缓解医疗不公平现象。虽然 MLPs 中的 "患者到政策 "工作有着悠久的传统，但目前的经验证据基础是通过评估 MLP 对患者个人、临床医生以及医院和法律系统的益处来评估其有效性的。本文呼吁今后开展研究，以衡量社区权力（包括将权力转移到受影响社区，以制定和领导以公平为重点的议程）是如何作为 MLP 的过程和结果建立起来的。

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AMA journal of ethics Social Sciences-Health (social science)

CiteScore

1.90

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0.00%

发文量

146

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