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Article Synopsis
- Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) aim to address health inequities by combining the efforts of legal and health professionals to tackle the legal factors affecting patients' health.
- While past research on MLPs has mainly focused on individual benefits for patients and systems, there's a call for future studies to explore the impact on community empowerment as a critical process in building equity.
- The article emphasizes the importance of assessing how MLPs can help shift power to affected communities, allowing them to set and lead health equity initiatives.