Medical-Legal Partnerships: Transforming Healthcare
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May 19, 2009 - 10:24 am (Updated: May 19, 2009 - 10:25 am)
Comment in The Lancet on medical-legal partnership.
Doctors, especially those who care for patients on low incomes, are frustrated that their patients' health is adversely affected by social determinants. For those patients with an acute or chronic illness, social determinants undercut the effectiveness of the burgeoning number of drugs and other treatments. Although this problem is usually considered a public-health issue, experience in the USA and abroad suggests a new way to transform the health-care system to address these social determinants.
CITATION:
Medical-Legal Partnerships: Transforming Healthcare. The Lancet. 8 November 2008; 372(9650): 1615-1617. Zuckerman, B, Sandel, M, Lawton, E, Morton, S.
