How Health Care Reform Can Transform The Health Of Criminal Justice–Involved Individuals
Year: 2014
Type: review
Abstract: Provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer new opportunities to apply a public health and medical perspective to the complex relationship between involvement in the criminal justice system and the existence of fundamental health disparities. Incarceration can cause harm to individual and community health, but prisons and jails also hold enormous potential to play an active and beneficial role in the health care system and, ultimately, to improving health. Traditionally, incarcerated populations have been incorrectly viewed as isolated and self-contained communities with only peripheral importance to the public health at large. This misconception has resulted in missed opportunities to positively affect the health of both the individuals and the imprisoned community as a whole and potentially to mitigate risk behaviors that may contribute to incarceration. Both community and correctional health care professionals can capitalize on these opportunities by working together to advocate for the health of the criminal justice-involved population and their communities. We present a set of recommendations for the improvement of both correctional health care, such as improving systems of external oversight and quality management, and access to community-based care, including establishing strategies for postrelease care and medical record transfers.
Source: Health Affairs
Institutions: Brown University, Miriam Hospital, National Institute on Drug Abuse, University of California, San Francisco, Rhode Island Department of Health, Yale University, George Mason University, University of California, Riverside, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Council of State Governments, University of California, Santa Cruz, The Sentencing Project, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation, National Institutes of Health, University of California, San Francisco, National Institute on Aging, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Awards: HIV and addictions among criminal justice-involved populations., Health, function, and health outcomes of geriatric prisoners, G485601353, Action Research to Advance Implementation in the CJS: CJ-DATS 2 Continuation, Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes in Individuals with a History of Incarceration, G7288178751, MI: Empowering Women to Make Contraceptive Choices While Incarcerated, Improving Linkage to HIV Care Following Release from Incarceration, Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
OpenAlex ID: W2062714523