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Health Priorities among Women Recently Released from Jail

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Objective: To describe the health priorities of women recently released from jail. Method: We open-coded semi-structured interview transcripts collected from 28 women within 6 months after their release from jail to identify themes associated with prioritization of health. Results: Five out of 28 women listed health as their top post-release priority. However, many women had competing priorities after release, including housing, employment, and children. We found that women described several reasons why health was not a priority; however, participants reported regular use of the healthcare system upon release from jail, indicating that health was important to them to some degree. Conclusions: Our findings from may inform intervention efforts that connect women to healthcare resources and increase health-promoting behavior during the transition from jail to community.

Keywords: HEALTH PRIORITIES; INCARCERATED WOMEN; JAIL HEALTH; JAIL RELEASE

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA. [email protected] 2: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA

Publication date: 01 March 2015

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