AI Article Synopsis
- Unmet legal needs lead to issues like housing, income, and food insecurity, negatively affecting health and worsening health inequities.
- New approaches are needed to train future lawyers, doctors, and healthcare workers to tackle these health injustices.
- Academic Medical-Legal Partnerships (A-MLPs) can help by combining resources from law and medical schools to promote health justice through service, education, and research.
Article Abstract
Unmet legal needs contribute to housing, income, and food insecurity, along with other conditions that harm health and drive health inequity. Addressing health injustice requires new tools for the next generations of lawyers, doctors, and other healthcare professionals. An interprofessional group of co-authors argue that law and medical schools and other university partners should develop and cultivate Academic Medical-Legal Partnerships (A-MLPs), which are uniquely positioned to leverage service, education, and research resources, to advance health justice.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10937176 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jme.2024.5 | DOI Listing |
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