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Process and Impact Evaluation of a Legal Assistance and Health Care Community Partnership
James A. Teufel, MPH*,
Stephen L. Brown, PhD,
Woody Thorne, BS,
Diane M. Goffinet, JD,
and
Latesha Clemons, BSW
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: teufel{at}siu.edu.
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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.
First published on April 11, 2008, doi:10.1177/1524839907312702
Health Promotion Practice 2009;10:378.
A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2009

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