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Integrating Health Care and Social Services

Health care providers, payers, and policymakers are increasingly coming to recognize that health relies on more than a visit to the doctor’s office. Emerging community-clinical partnership models allow the U.S. health care system to respond more directly to the ways that our homes, food, environment, and daily lives impact health. However, these models raise new questions regarding how health care laws and policies apply to partnerships between the health care and social sectors.   

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Public Health in Massachusetts

The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) has a special focus on infectious disease and access to health care services that promote public health in Massachusetts. 

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Reproductive and Sexual Health Care Access

From birth control and HIV/STI prevention to abortion and holistic pregnancy care, comprehensive reproductive and sexual health care is foundational to health and well-being. Law is a tool to expand access, dismantle barriers, and address disparities through innovative models of care. Many states are improving reproductive and sexual health care through enabling, for example, the delivery of medication abortion, HIV prevention, and other services via telemedicine. Law can also, however, be deployed in ways that drive inequity and marginalization—through outright bans on services, insurance coverage limitations, and other restrictions. 

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Strengthening Health Care Coverage

Access to quality health care is key to maintaining health and well-being, particularly for people living with chronic illness and disabilities (such as HIV and hepatitis C). While access to insurance is critical, even people with insurance can face cost and coverage barriers that put necessary treatment and services out of reach. The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) works with longstanding community partners to pursue national and state advocacy for legal, regulatory, and policy reforms that help strengthen available health care coverage and ensure that people can access the care they need. 

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