Medical-Legal Partnerships and Social Determinants of Health with Lynette Martins

Bioethics in the Margins

In this episode, Amelia and Kirk speak with Lynette Martins who is co-leader of the ASBH immigration affinity group with Dr. Brian Tuohy and a recent graduate from Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute in national and global health law. Ms. Martins highlights the importance of Medical-Legal Partnerships in identifying and addressing both direct and indirect impacts that legal issues and policy have on health and healthcare access and outcomes. MLP’s are particularly helpful for addressing the Social Determinants of Health, the non-medical conditions in the environments in which we live, learn, work, and play that can negatively influence patient outcomes. MLP’s provide collaborative spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue, enhancing individual patient care while also helping healthcare institutions address recurrent issues that may be impacting specific patient populations.

Further reading can be found here:

https://medical-legalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Financing-MLPs-View-from-the-Field.pdf

https://medical-legalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Health-Center-MLP-Toolkit-FINAL.pdf