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A comprehensive framework for operationalizing structural racism in health research: The association between mass incarceration of Black people in the U.S. and adverse birth outcomes. [PDF]

SSM Popul Health, 2022
Structural racism represents a key determinant of the racial health disparities that has characterized the U.S. population throughout its existence. While this reality has recently begun to gain increasing acknowledgment and acceptance within the health ...
Larrabee Sonderlund A, Charifson M, Ortiz R, Khan M, Schoenthaler A, Williams NJ.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mass incarceration as a driver of the tuberculosis epidemic in Latin America and projected effects of policy alternatives: a mathematical modelling study. [PDF]

Lancet Public Health
Summary Background Tuberculosis incidence is increasing in Latin America, where the incarcerated population has nearly quadrupled since 1990. We aimed to quantify the impact of historical and future incarceration policies on the tuberculosis epidemic ...
Liu YE, Mabene Y, Camelo S, Rueda ZV, Pelissari DM, Dockhorn Costa Johansen F, Huaman MA, Avalos-Cruz T, Alarcón VA, Ladutke LM, Bergman M, Cohen T, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Croda J, Andrews JR.   +14 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Health Care in the Age of Mass Incarceration: A Selective Course for Medical Students in Their Preclinical Years [PDF]

MedEdPORTAL, 2020
Introduction While medical school curricula increasingly address health disparities, content regarding health care for persons impacted by incarceration is a persistent and notable gap.
Julia Gips, Alina Spiegel, Alexandra Norton, Priyal Gandhi, Dylan Hardenbergh, John Gatti, Laura Pugh, Amanda Jones, Carolyn Sufrin   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Structural Racism, Mass Incarceration, and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity.

JAMA Netw Open
Key Points Question Is county-level jail incarceration inequity between Black and White individuals, as a manifestation of structural racism, associated with severe maternal morbidity risk?
Hailu EM, Riddell CA, Bradshaw PT, Ahern J, Carmichael SL, Mujahid MS.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The growing geriatric prison population: A dire public health consequence of mass incarceration. [PDF]

J Am Geriatr Soc, 2021
In 1985, Mr. Jackson (name and some features changed to protect patient identity) and another man got into a fatal drug-fueled fight; Mr. Jackson received an “indeterminate prison sentence” (7 years to life) for unintentional murder. In prison, he became
Williams B, DiTomas M, Pachynski A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Social Determination of HIV: Women's Relationship Work in the Context of Mass Incarceration and Housing Vulnerability. [PDF]

AIDS Behav, 2021
We contrast a typical “social determinants of health” framing with a more dynamic and complex “social determination of health” framing to analyze HIV-related sexual risk among women in low-income, segregated neighborhoods in New Haven, CT.
Blankenship KM, Rosenberg A, Keene DE, Dawson AJ, Groves AK, Schlesinger P.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics

Hastings Center Report, 2023
A growing body of literature has engaged with mass incarceration as a public health problem. This article reviews some of that literature, illustrating why and how bioethicists can and should engage with the problem of mass incarceration as a remediable ...
Sean A. Valles
exaly   +2 more sources

Mass incarceration as a climate justice issue [PDF]

Environmental Research Letters
The climate crisis and mass incarceration are deeply intertwined. While climate change has intensified worldwide, incarcerated populations are disproportionately at risk of experiencing poor health related to climate change through multiple hazards ...
Katherine LeMasters, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, David Ciplet, David Cloud, Kristen Cowan, William Eisenman, Lawrence Haber, Allison Macht, Colleen E Reid   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline: the intergenerational transmission of criminalization

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Although the school-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration arose in the United States at the same time, scholars have addressed them separately. In this article, we show that both systems rose due to an overreliance on policing in society and are ...
Emma K. Tynan, Mark R. Warren
doaj   +2 more sources

Mass incarceration and public health: the association between black jail incarceration and adverse birth outcomes among black women in Louisiana [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background A growing body of evidence is beginning to highlight how mass incarceration shapes inequalities in population health. Non-Hispanic blacks are disproportionately affected by incarceration and criminal law enforcement, an enduring legacy of a ...
Lauren Dyer, Rachel Hardeman, Dovile Vilda, Katherine Theall, Maeve Wallace   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources