Murphy Johnna S, Lawton Ellen M, Sandel Megan
Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, 88 East Newton Street, Vose Hall 3, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, 2175 K Street, NW, 513A, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
Pediatr Clin North Am. 2015 Oct;62(5):1263-71. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2015.06.001. Epub 2015 Jul 16.
Many of the social determinants of health are rooted in legal problems. Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) have the potential to positively change clinical systems. This change can be accomplished by integrating legal staff into health care clinics to educate staff and residents on social determinants of health and their legal origins. When the MLP team works directly with patients to identify and address legal needs that improve health outcomes, and incorporate legal insights and solutions into health care practice where the patient population is overwhelmingly impacted by social conditions, outcomes are beneficial to children and families.
许多健康的社会决定因素都源于法律问题。医疗-法律合作关系(MLPs)有潜力积极改变临床系统。这种改变可以通过将法律工作人员融入医疗诊所来实现,以便就健康的社会决定因素及其法律根源对工作人员和患者进行教育。当MLP团队直接与患者合作,识别并满足能改善健康结果的法律需求,并将法律见解和解决方案纳入医疗实践(而患者群体在很大程度上受到社会状况的影响)时,结果将对儿童和家庭有益。