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Process and Impact Evaluation of a Legal Assistance and Health Care Community Partnership

James A. Teufel, MPH

Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Health Education and Recreation in Carbondale, Illinois

Stephen L. Brown, PhD

Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Health Education and Recreation in Carbondale, Illinois

Woody Thorne, BS

Southern Illinois Healthcare in Carbondale, Illinois

Diane M. Goffinet, JD

Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc.

Latesha Clemons, BSW

Community health partnerships have increased in popularity, but their effectiveness is often not evaluated. Through secondary data analysis, this study evaluates a program that offered access to legal services to address health-related issues, such as Medicaid reimbursement, Social Security benefits, medication coverage, and divorce. Based on the analysis reimbursements to expenditures, the health and law program appears to be cost-effective and thereby economically sustainable. The cost-effectiveness of this program increases the likelihood that it will be institutionalized and/or expanded. This program evaluation is used to exemplify how community stakeholders could partner to leverage resources to establish a sustainable community health and law program to address the needs of people living in medically underserved areas.

Key Words: partnership • community health • law • sustainability • evaluation

This version was published on July 1, 2009

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 10, No. 3, 378-385 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839907312702
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