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Article
Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Author ORCID iD
orcid.org/0000-0001-8904-2140
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Disciplines
Abstract
Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) integrate knowledge and practices from law and health care in pursuit of health equity. However, the MLP movement has not reached its full potential to address racial health inequities, in part because its original framing was not explicitly race conscious. This article aims to stimulate discussion of the role of MLPs in racial justice. It calls for MLPs to name racism as a social determinant of health and to examine how racism may operate in the field. This work sets the stage for the next step: operationalizing racial justice in the MLP model, research, and practice.
Citation Information
Medha D Makhlouf. "Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships" Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Vol. 50 (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/medha-makhlouf/31/
This article has been published in a revised form in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics [https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2022.16]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works.