Professional Impact

One of the goals of medical-legal partnership is to simultaneously transform healthcare for vulnerable populations and the service delivery model of legal aid to improve the health and well-being of families and individuals.  By training physicians to screen for social determinants of health and lawyers to intervene in a preventive posture, medical-legal partnership aims to address legal problems before they become crises.

 

Resolutions

The American Bar Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians have passed resolutions in support of medical-legal partnership.

• American Bar Association – adopted August 2007
• American Academy of Pediatrics – adopted December 2007
• Arizona Academy of Family Physicians – adopted April 2008

A similar resolution is currently pending before the American Academy of Family Physicians.