Incorporating Lawyers on the Interprofessional Team to Promote Health and Health Equity

Scott, Charity

doi:10.18060/3911.0029

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“…Through MLPs, legal assistance may be available for all low-income patients accessing a health service, or targeted to patients with specific conditions, such as cancer (see eg, Franco et al, 2013), HIV (Muñoz-Laboy et al, 2019) or critical illness (see eg, Eynon et al, 2019), or to age groups, such as socioeconomically vulnerable children (see eg, Klein et al, 2013) or older adults (see eg, Tobin-Tyler, 2019). MLPs may also feature interprofessional training for practitioners and advocacy for systemic legal and policy reforms to improve health equity (Genn, 2019;Scott, 2017).…”

Section: Adding Lawyers To Health Care Settingsmentioning

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Conceptualizing interprofessional working – when a lawyer joins the healthcare mix

Ries

2021

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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Research, policy and practice in the field of interprofessional collaboration have focused on how medical, nursing, allied health and social care practitioners work together to positively impact patient care. This paper extends conceptual thinking about interprofessional practice by focusing on lawyers as part of the interprofessional mix. This attention is prompted by medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), a service model by which lawyers join health care settings to assist patients with unmet, and often health-harming, legal needs. MLPs are present in around 450 hospitals and other health care sites across the United States and the model has spread to other countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. However, enthusiasm for the MLP model is not yet matched by good evidence on how, when and for whom the model works. Interprofessional scholars contend that imprecise terminology and poor conceptualization of interprofessional arrangements hinder high-quality research and evaluation. In response to their critiques, this paper formulates a stepwise conceptual framework to guide the design, implementation and study of interprofessional arrangements that connect health, social care and legal practitioners. This framework draws on findings from national surveys of MLP initiatives in several countries and adapts several key conceptual frameworks that have been developed from systematic reviews of interprofessional working in primary health care. These conceptual frameworks are valuable because they promote clarity about different modes of interprofessional working and characterize the factors at macro (policy, funding), meso (organizational) and micro (practitioner, patient) levels that help or hinder professionals from different disciplines in working together. The paper considers factors at these three levels that require particular attention when lawyers join health care settings and proposes questions for future research in this emerging area.

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Section: Adding Lawyers To Health Care Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing interprofessional working – when a lawyer joins the healthcare mix

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2021

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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Incorporating Lawyers on the Interprofessional Team to Promote Health and Health Equity

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Conceptualizing interprofessional working – when a lawyer joins the healthcare mix

Conceptualizing interprofessional working – when a lawyer joins the healthcare mix

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