The use of legal empowerment to improve access to quality health services: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents the results of a scoping review that examines the extent to which legal empowerment has been used as a strategy in efforts to improve access to quality health services in low- and middle-income countries. The review identifies lessons learned regarding legal empowerment program strategy, as well as impact on health empowerment and health outcomes, research gaps, areas of consensus and tension in the field.The review included three main sources of data: 1) peer-reviewed literature, 2) grey literature, and 3) interviews with key legal empowerment stakeholders. Peer-reviewed and grey literature were identified via keyword searches, and interviewees were identified by searching an organizational database and snowball sampling.The key findings were: first, there is very limi

SUBMITTER: Joshi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature