National Survey of Legal Clinics Housed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to Inform Partnerships with Health and Community Services.
Journal
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
ISSN: 1548-6869
Titre abrégé: J Health Care Poor Underserved
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9103800
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
entrez:
8
1
2021
pubmed:
9
1
2021
medline:
28
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Legal clinics housed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) help veterans eliminate service access barriers. In this survey of 95 VA-housed legal clinics (70% of clinics), clients' legal problems were mainly estate planning, family, obtaining VA benefits, and housing (14-17% of clients). Most clinics rarely interacted with VA health care providers, did not have access to clients' VA health care records, and did not track clients' VA health care access (58-81% of clinics); 32% did not have dedicated and adequate space. Most clinic staff members were unpaid. Survey findings-that most VA-housed legal clinics do not interact with VA health care or directly address clients' mental health and substance use needs, and lack funds to serve fully all veterans seeking services-suggest that VA and community agencies should enact policies that expand and fund veterans' legal services and health system interactions to address health inequities and improve health outcomes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33416704
pii: S1548686920300280
doi: 10.1353/hpu.2020.0104
pmc: PMC8215811
mid: NIHMS1713323
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1440-1456Subventions
Organisme : HSRD VA
ID : I21 HX002318
Pays : United States
Organisme : Intramural VA
ID : RCS 00-001
Pays : United States
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