Can access to a medical-legal partnership benefit patients with asthma who live in an urban community?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 706-717

  Pettignano, Robert ^a   Bliss, Lisa Radtke ^b   Caley, Sylvia B ^b   McLaren, Susan ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Lawyers; Low socioeconomic status; Medical legal partnership; Outcomes; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878462226     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0055     Document Type: Article

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