Abstract
Background: Over seven million imprisoned and jailed women are released into the community each year and many are ill-equipped to meet the challenges of re-integration. Upon release into their community, women are faced with uncertain barriers and challenges using community services to improve their health and well-being and reuniting with families. Few studies have identified and described the barriers of the community health delivery system (CHDS)- a complex set of social, justice, and healthcare organizations that provide community services aimed to improve the health and well-being (i.e. safety, health, the success of integration, and life satisfaction) of justice-involved women. We conducted a narrative review of peer-reviewed and gray literature to identify and describe the CHDS and the CHDS service delivery.
Results: Peer-reviewed and gray literature (n = 82) describing the CHDS organizations’ missions, incentives, goals, and services were coded in three domains, justice, social, and healthcare, to examine their service delivery to justice-involved women and their efforts to improve the health and well-being of justice-involved women.
Conclusions: We found that the CHDS is fragmented, identified gaps in knowledge about the CHDS that serves justice-involved women, and offer recommendations to reduce fragmentation and integrate service delivery aimed to improve the health and well-being of justice-involved women.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-28-2019
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-019-0092-y
Funding Information
The project was funded by the National Cancer Institute.
Repository Citation
Smith, Sharla A.; Mays, Glen P.; Collins, Tracie C.; and Ramaswamy, Megha, "The Role of the Community Health Delivery System in the Health and Well-Being of Justice-Involved Women: A Narrative Review" (2019). Health Management and Policy Faculty Publications. 15.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hsm_facpub/15
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Health & Justice, v. 7, article no. 12, p. 1-26.
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