Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-xtgtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-20T02:59:29.635Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Striving for Health Equity through Medical, Public Health, and Legal Collaboration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Joel B. Teitelbaum ,
Joanna Theiss  and
Colleen Healy Boufides
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This article discusses (1) the ways in which law functions as a determinant of health, (2) historical collaborations between the health and legal professions, (3) the benefits of creating medical-public health-legal collaborations, and (4) how viewing law through a collaborative, population health lens can lead to health equity.

Type
Symposium Articles
Information
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 47 , Issue S2: 2018 Public Health Law Conference: Health Justice: Empowering Public Health and Advancing Health Equity , Summer 2019 , pp. 104 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Braveman, P., and Gottlieb, L., “The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes,” Public Health Reports 129, Suppl. 2 (2014): at 19-31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berman, M., “A Public Health Perspective on Health Care Reform,” Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine 21, no. 2 (2011): 356-364.Google Scholar
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Ten Great Public Health Achievements, United States, 2001 – 2010,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 60 (2011): 19.Google Scholar
Bailey, Z.,et al., “Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions,” The Lancet 370 (2017): 10077; E. Tobin-Tyler, “When Are Laws Strictly Enforced? Criminal Justice, Housing Quality, And Public Health,” Health Affairs Blog (November 5, 2015), available at <https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20151105.051649/full/> (last visited April 10, 2019).Google Scholar
Tobin-Tyler, E. and Teitelbaum, J., Essentials of Health Justice: A Primer (Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2018): at 33-60.Google Scholar
Schwarz, D., “What's the Connection Between Residential Segregation and Health?” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Blog (April 3, 2018), available at <https://www.rwjf.org/en/blog/2016/03/whats-the-connection-between-residential-segregation-and-health.html> (last visited April 10, 2019). (last visited April 10, 2019).' href=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Schwarz,+D.,+“What's+the+Connection+Between+Residential+Segregation+and+Health?”+Robert+Wood+Johnson+Foundation+Culture+of+Health+Blog+(April+3,+2018),+available+at++(last+visited+April+10,+2019).>Google Scholar
Teitelbaum, J., and Lawton, E., “The Roots and Branches of the Medical-Legal Partnership Approach to Health: From Collegiality to Civil Rights to Health Equity,” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 17 (2017): 343.Google Scholar
Jacobson, P. D., Strangers in the Night: Law and Medicine in the Managed Care Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).Google Scholar
See, e.g., Physicians for Human Rights, “About PHR,” available at <http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/about/> (last visited April 10, 2019).+(last+visited+April+10,+2019).>Google Scholar
Lawton, E., A History of the Medical-Legal Partnership Movement, Community Health Forum (Fall/Winter 2014), available at <http://medical-legalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/NACHC-Magazine-A-History-of-the-Medical-Legal-Partnership-Movement.pdf> (last visited April 10, 2019).Google Scholar
Whitman-Walker Health, “Our History,” available at <https://www.whitman-walker.org/our-history> (last visited April 10, 2019).+(last+visited+April+10,+2019).>Google Scholar
Regenstein, M., Trott, J., Williamson, A., and Theiss, J., “Addressing Social Determinants of Health Through Medical-Legal Partnerships,” Health Affairs 37, no. 3 (2018): 380-381.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap (2017): at 6Google Scholar
Marple, K., and Dexter, E., “Ensuring People with Chronic Conditions Maintain Access to Care,” National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (May 2018).Google Scholar
Beck, A.,et al., “Identifying and Treating a Substandard Housing Cluster Using a Medical-Legal Partnership,” Pediatrics 130, no. 5 (2012), available at <https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/5/831> (last visited April 10, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tobin-Tyler, E., “Aligning Public Health, Health Care, Law and Policy: Medical-Legal Partnership as a Multilevel Response to the Social Determinants of Health,” Journal of Health and Biomedical Law 8 (2012): 211.Google Scholar
See Burris, S.,et al., “Better Health Faster: The 5 Essential Public Health Law Services,” Public Health Reports 13 (2016): 747. The five essential public health law services include: (1) “Access to Evidence and Expertise,” (2) “Expertise in Designing Legal Solutions,” (3) “Collaboration in Engaging Communities and Building Political Will,” (4) “Support for Enforcing and Defending Legal Solutions,” (5) “Monitoring of Policy Surveillance and Evaluation.” Id., at 748, Figure.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Healthy People 2020, “Social Determinants of Health,” available at <https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health> (last visited April 10, 2019).+(last+visited+April+10,+2019).>Google Scholar