The Family Advocacy Program: A Medical-Legal Collaborative to Promote Child Health and Development
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May 19, 2009 - 12:44 pm
Article describes medical-legal partnership model in which advocacy resources are sited in the clinical setting to improve the health of low-income families and children. The MLP approach is designed especially to change the culture and improve the quality of care in
pediatric settings across the country in order to prevent health and developmental problems in children. By encouraging pediatricians to look beyond the medical needs of their patients, and incorporate “legal treatment” for problems associated with unmet basic needs that impact child health, MLP seeks nothing less than to change the practice of pediatrics.
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The Family Advocacy Program: A Medical-Legal Collaborative to Promote Child Health and Development. Management Information Exchange Journal. Summer 2003. E Lawton.