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Medical-Legal Partnership and Healthy Start: Integrating Civil Legal Aid Services into Public Health Advocacy

Daniel Atkins et al.
Journal of Legal Medicine
March 26, 2014
This article looks at the medical-legal partnership model and how it can improve health outcomes by addressing the underlying social determinants of health.

Optimizing the Health Impacts of Civil Legal Aid Interventions: The Public Health Framework of Medical-Legal Partnerships

Ellen Lawton, Elizabeth Tobin Tyler
Rhode Island Medical Journal
July 1, 2013
This article shows how medical-legal partnerships, a healthcare delivery model, can address the social determinants of health -- how one's social conditions (like neighborhood, job, and access to resources) affect health.

The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

Eric W. Schultheis
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
July 21, 2014
This article proposes an accessibility model that matches supply and demand for civil legal services spatially.

Poverty, the Great Unequalizer: Improving the Delivery System for Civil Legal Aid

Latonia Haney Keith
Catholic University Law Review
January 27, 2017
This article presents an overview of civil legal aid and three reforms to improve delivery of services: 1) comprehensive triage system; 2) using business process improvements; and 3) creating legal information exchange organizations.

Psychological Well-Being Among Women Who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Received Civil Legal Services

Lynette Renner, Carolyn Hartley
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
May 28, 2018
This study uses Sullivan's Social and Emotional Well-Being Framework to see why and how women who experienced intimate partner violence (or domestic violence) and received civil legal services experienced improvements in psychological well-being. Women reported a decrease in depressive and PTSD symptoms over one year after receiving civil legal services.

Economic Self-Sufficiency among Women Who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Received Civil Legal Services

Carolyn Hartley, Lynette Renner
Journal of Family Violence
October 1, 2016
This study, funded by a DOJ award, found that for women who were experiencing intimate partner violence (also called domestic violence) and who received civil legal services for assistance in obtaining a civil protective order or assisting with a family law problem, saw increases in monthly income increase and number of assistance resources decrease. The study finds that "civil legal services are a critical component of a community coordinated response to IPV" (abstract).

Rural Medical-Legal Partnership and Advocacy: A Three-Year Follow-up Study

James A. Teufel el al.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
May 1, 2012
In this study, researchers conducted a cost benefit analysis of an MLP. Using baseline data and three years of follow up data in logic modelling, they find that there was a 319 percent return on investment.

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Medical-Legal Partnership and Healthy Start: Integrating Civil Legal Aid Services into Public Health Advocacy

Optimizing the Health Impacts of Civil Legal Aid Interventions: The Public Health Framework of Medical-Legal Partnerships

The Social, Geographic, and Organizational Determinants of Access to Civil Legal Aid Services: An Argument for an Integrated Access to Justice Model

Poverty, the Great Unequalizer: Improving the Delivery System for Civil Legal Aid

Psychological Well-Being Among Women Who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Received Civil Legal Services

Economic Self-Sufficiency among Women Who Experienced Intimate Partner Violence and Received Civil Legal Services

Rural Medical-Legal Partnership and Advocacy: A Three-Year Follow-up Study

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