Health Disparities Among Incarcerated

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Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited and …

(1 days ago) WEBThe United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate. 1 At the end of 2020, despite historic declines in the incarcerated population due to Covid-19, 1.7 million people in the United

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252

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Incarceration - Healthy People 2030 health.gov

(9 days ago) WEBThe Bureau of Justice Statistics defines the incarcerated population as the population of inmates confined in a prison or a jail. 1 State and federal prisons house people …

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health/literature-summaries/incarceration

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Racial disparities in health conditions among prisoners …

(3 days ago) WEB1.1. Prisons and disparities. The effect of incarceration on racial/ethnic health disparities has been theorized (Asad and Clair, 2017, Binswanger et al., 2011), …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5558461/

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Health Disparities and Converging Epidemics in Jail …

(3 days ago) WEBIn the last 2 decades, jail and prison populations of the United States have increased markedly in size and diversity [1,2], with a concomitant impact on public …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231773/

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Incarceration as a Fundamental Social Cause of Health …

(3 days ago) WEBSecond, given that incarceration is a fundamental social cause of disease, both currently and formerly incarcerated populations are likely to face heightened vulnerabilities to …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8083481/

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Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America - RWJF

(2 days ago) WEBMass incarceration’s effects on health last far beyond the period of imprisonment. It impacts social, educational, and economic opportunities; increases the prevalence of chronic health conditions; and decreases …

https://www.rwjf.org/en/insights/our-research/2019/01/mass-incarceration-threatens-health-equity-in-america.html

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Incarceration History and Access to and Receipt of Health …

(Just Now) WEBExposure to racism is associated with higher risk of incarceration and worse access to care among racialized populations 1,2,28; thus, improving access to …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2815241

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Incarceration as a catalyst for worsening health - Health

(Just Now) WEBThe incarceration rate has risen steeply in the United States over the last several decades, increasing by 397% between 1980 and 2011 (Carson and Sabol 2012; National Institute of Justice 1984).In …

https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2194-7899-1-3

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Do prisoners trust the healthcare system? - Health & Justice

(5 days ago) WEBIn this exploratory study, health care system distrust was evaluated among 200 people who were incarcerated using the Revised Health Care System Distrust …

https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40352-021-00141-x

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Incarceration and Health: A Family Medicine Perspective

(8 days ago) WEBJuvenile incarceration likely correlates with poor health and a lower social functioning status across an individual’s lifetime. 42. From 1990 to 2009, the number of inmates …

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Mass Incarceration and Inmate Mortality in the United States

(8 days ago) WEBThe studies by both Ruch et al 2 and Bovell-Ammon et al 1 support Patterson’s findings by suggesting that a study of health disparities among …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2787443

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OMH’s Justice and Health Initiatives Office of Minority Health

(6 days ago) WEBU.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (2015) The mission of the Office of Minority Health is to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through …

https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omhs-justice-and-health-initiatives

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Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism …

(3 days ago) WEBFurthermore, the role of mass incarceration as a mechanism of how structural racism affects racial health disparities has been heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(22)00005-6/fulltext

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Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Incarcerated Populations

(3 days ago) WEBThe ethical considerations for studying racial and ethnic health disparities among incarcerated groups must reflect subpart C of the Protection of Human Subjects …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546523/

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The Links Between Disability, Incarceration, And - Health Affairs

(Just Now) WEBWith more than 1.2 million people incarcerated in prisons as of December 2021, the US is a global leader in incarceration. 1 Importantly, disability prevalence has been found to …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00495

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Incarceration, community health, and racial disparities

(1 days ago) WEBSeveral recent studies have shown that the racial disparities in U.S. mortality nearly disappear in prisons. We review the social determinants of the recent epidemic of …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23377719/

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Health Disparities and Converging Epidemics in Jail - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBBackground: Incarcerated populations have increased in the last 20 years and >12 million individuals cycle in and out of jails each year. Previous research has …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30355562/

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Understanding and Addressing Health Disparities and Health …

(7 days ago) WEBRates of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis B and C, and sexually transmitted diseases, are higher among the incarcerated population than …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0033354918813089

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Structural racism and the impact on incarcerated midlife women

(8 days ago) WEBThe rate of incarceration among midlife women gradually increased between the years 1990–2010, The 21st Century Cures Act Implications for the …

https://womensmidlifehealthjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40695-022-00081-y

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Incarceration and Health - PMC - National Center for …

(3 days ago) WEBThe authors found that incarceration had a significant effect on AIDS infection rates for both males and females and concluded that a large proportion of the racial disparities …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124689/

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Mental health outcomes in formerly incarcerated Black men: A

(1 days ago) WEBAims: The aim of this review was to evaluate the current state of scientific knowledge describing the mental health of Black men who have experienced incarceration. …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35362166/

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Structural Racism as a Contributor to Lung Cancer Incidence and

(3 days ago) WEBStudies examining racial disparities in lung cancer have noted a variety of contributing factors including adverse social determinants of health and inequities in …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10732748241248363

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Psychosocial Determinants of Health among Incarcerated Black …

(3 days ago) WEBHealth disparities among incarcerated Black women. Prisoners experience a disproportionate number of health issues and concerns when compared to the general …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855696/

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