ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2015
The state of research funding from the National Institutes of Health for criminal justice health research.
Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Carceral Health Care.The New England journal of medicine · 2025Review
- Funding for Refugee Health Research From the National Institutes of Health Between 2000 and 2020.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Fractured and delayed: A qualitative analysis of disruptions in care for gynecologic malignancies during incarceration.Gynecologic oncology · 2023Article
- Mass incarceration and cognitive impairment in older adults: Setting a research agenda.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration.Annual review of public health · 2023Review
- Assessment of US Federal Funding of Incarceration-Related Research, 1985 to 2022.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- History of Incarceration and Its Association With Geriatric and Chronic Health Outcomes in Older Adulthood.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Diabetes in the context of incarceration: A scoping review.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Overview of a Pilot Health-focused Reentry Program for Racial/Ethnic Minority Probationers ages 18 to 26 in Southern California.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2022Article
- Accuracy of Ophthalmology Clinic Follow-Up in the Incarcerated Patient Population.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2022Article
- Barriers and facilitators to attending and being physically active during recreation time among women incarcerated.BMC women's health · 2022Article
- Guest editorial.International journal of prisoner health · 2022Article
- Standardized outcome measures of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated.International journal of prisoner health · 2022Review
- Community investment interventions as a means for decarceration: A scoping review.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundOver 20 million Americans are currently or have been incarcerated. Most are from medically underserved populations; 1 in 3 African American men and 1 in 6 Latino men born in 2001 are projected to go to prison during their lifetime. The amount of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand and improve the health of persons involved with the criminal justice system is unknown.
objectiveTo describe NIH funding for research on the health and health care needs of criminal justice-involved persons.
designReview of NIH grants (2008-2012) in the RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) database.
settingU.S. criminal justice system. PATIENTS: Criminal justice-involved persons participating in NIH-funded clinical research. MEASUREMENTS: NIH research and training grants awarded, by number, type, research area, institute or center, and dollar amount.
resultsOf more than 250 000 NIH-funded grants, 180 (<0.1%) focused on criminal justice health research. The 3 most common foci were substance use or HIV (64%), mental health (11%), and juvenile health (8%). The National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health funded 78% of all grants. In 2012, the NIH invested $40.9 million in criminal justice health research, or 1.5% of the $2.7 billion health disparities budget for that year. LIMITATION: NIH-supported research that did not explicitly include current or former prisoners but may have relevance to criminal justice health was not included.
conclusionFederal funding for research focused on understanding and improving the health of criminal justice-involved persons is small, even compared with the NIH's overall investment in health disparities research. The NIH is well-positioned to transform the care of current and former prisoners by investing in this critical yet overlooked research area.
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