What is it about?
Issues of health and law are closely connected in people with chronic illness but there has been little emphasis in health services on establishing formal links between these two important areas. This paper explores how young people’s health and legal needs are simultaneously addressed within a health–justice partnership in a tertiary hospital for young adults with chronic illness.
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Why is it important?
We describe the collaborative treatment model involving health and law professionals working together in an interdisciplinary clinic. We explain and discuss the integration of law and health as a model of care and the importance of growth and shift in the understandings of the professionals working in this model. We provide examples of treatment, coordinated actions and successful outcomes in the well-being of three complex young people, their families and the community.
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Writing this article was enjoyable and inspiring as it involved working with a lawyer colleague with complementary and broad views and knowledge. It led to deepening of an already good collaborative relationship and a conception of a future project in the area of health and law partnerships of a larger scope .
Dr Tatjana T Ewais
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Health and justice partnerships for young adults – when health and law unite in care, Health Education Journal, August 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0017896918786532.
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