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Health priorities among women recently released from jail
Megha Ramaswamy1, Satyasree Upadhyayula2, Ka Yee Clara Chan2
1Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA. mramaswamy@kumc.edu.
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.
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