White Papers and Reports
Below are a selection of white papers and reports about medical-legal partnership, legal need and social determinants of health. For more information and resources on medical-legal partnership outcomes, please visit our Results page.
Medical-Legal Partnership White Papers
Health Impact Assessments
Evaluation Reports
Heat and Eat Reports
Pro Bono Reports and Resources
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission for a Healthier America's report recommends medical-legal partnership as an action step for health care providers. Read the full report:
Medical-Legal Partnership White Papers
White paper on how medical-legal partnerships can utilize health care recovery dollars as a funding strategy.Health Care Recovery Dollars: A Sustainable Strategy for Medical-Legal Partnerships? Medical-Legal Partnership for Children. Boston: March 2008. Rachael Knight, Esq.
Paper authored by McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP and MLP | Boston which addresses a number of common questions regarding medical-legal partnership site operations, describes the principal legal considerations for each, and makes a number of general recommendations.
Introductory Frequently Asked Questions Regarding HIPAA, Privilege and Confidentiality in the Medical-Legal Partnership Model. McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP and the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children. Boston: March 2008.
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Health Impact Assessments
NCMLP evaluates the health impacts of public policies outside of the traditional health domain, such as utility access and housing subsidies for medically ill low-income people. CHIAs offer an objective, evidence- and experience- based method through which to evaluate the implications of policy, regulations, and legislation for children's health and well-being.Unhealthy Consequences: Energy Costs & Child Health. A Child Health Impact Assessment of Energy Costs and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The Child Health Impact Assessment Working Group. Boston: April 2007. Smith, LS, et. al.
Affordable Housing and Child Health: A Child Health Impact Assessment of the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program. The Child Health Impact Assessment Working Group. Boston: June 2005. Smith, LS, et. al.
Other important HIA resources:
Use of Health Impact Assessment in the U.S.: 27 Case Studies, 1999-2007. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2008; 24(3): 241-256. Andrew Dannenberg, MD, MPH, et. al.
North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group. Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment, Version 1. North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group, April 7, 2009.
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Evaluation Reports
In March 2008, NCMLP and MLP | Boston conducted a legal needs assessment in Boston Medical Center's pediatric emergency department. This was one of the first studies to conduct an assessment of legal needs of a hospital-based population in which factors that may affect access to or utilization of legal assistance are also measured. The IRB approved study included a two part-survey -- a self-administered survey in the waiting room and a follow-up phone interview.Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Prevalence and Severity of Unmet Legal Needs in a Pediatric Emergency Department Setting. Medical-Legal Partnership for Children. Boston, MA: April 10, 2008. Mark Hansen, MPH and Ellen Lawton, JD.
Report from LegalHealth on a study that measured the impact of legal interventions on fifty-one of its clients with cancer.
Impact of Legal Interventions on Cancer Survivors. Legal Health. New York: January 2007. Randye Retkin, Julie Brandfield and Cathy Bacich.
LegalHealth conducted a two-year study that examined 381 cases handled by the medical-legal partnership. The study found that 13% of cases generated revenue -- an average of $11,904 per patient.
Financial Impact Study of LegalHealth Services to New York City Hospitals. LegalHealth. New York: November 2007. Research and Analysis by Jimmy Boyle and Ada Chiu.
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Heat and Eat Reports
Rx for Hunger: Affordable Housing. Children’s Health Watch and Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston. Boston: December 2009.Nutrition Support Programs in the Health Care Setting: A Prescription for Hunger Prevention. Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston. Boston, MA: February 2009. Cristina Dacchille, Esq. and Morenike Mosuro.
Bringing Children In From The Cold: Solutions for Boston’s Hidden Homeless. The Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program and The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children. Boston, MA: October 2008.
Energy Clinic: A Toolbox for Helping Families Heat AND Eat. Medical-Legal Partnership for Children. Boston: February 2008. Bianca Pullen, Emerson Hunger Fellow.
Food Stamps and Immigrant Families: How Health Care Workers Can Promote Child Health. Medical-Legal Partnership for Children. Boston: February 2008. David Kane, Emerson Hunger Fellow.
Fuel for Our Future: Impacts of Energy Insecurity on Children's Health, Nutrition and Learning. Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program. Boston: September 2007.
Food Stamps as Medicine: A New Perspective on Child Health. Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program. Boston: February 2007.
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Pro Bono Reports and Resources
The Association of Pro Bono Counsel (APBCO), in collaboration with a number of public interest organizations and the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and the ABA Center for Pro Bono, has prepared a report Considerations for the Placement of Law Firm Attorneys into Public Interest Organizations for the law firm, law school and public interest communities to address the emerging issues of increase law firm placement of attorneys and law graduate incoming associates into public interest positions.PSLawNet: A Clearinghouse Where Law Firms Can Connect With Public Interest Organizations Offering Associate Placements
- Law Firm Staff and Associates Search for Potential Public Interest Placements
- Public Interest Organization Advertise Itself as a Potential Host for Firm Associates
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