ReviewCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2016
Health status of prisoners in Canada: Narrative review.
Review in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
72 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Incidence of physical non-communicable disease in people who have experienced imprisonment compared with the general population in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2026Pooled it
- Opioid-related treatment, interventions, and outcomes among incarcerated persons: A systematic review.PLoS medicine · 2019Pooled it
- History of Childhood Abuse in Populations Incarcerated in Canada: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of public health · 2019Pooled it
- Assessing the Needs of Community Mental Health Service Users with Chronic Physical Health Conditions: A Cross-Sectional Study.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
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- Opioid use disorder in custodial settings: Continuity of opioid agonist therapy at a critical clinical inflection point.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026Article
- The health status of incarcerated people in Canada: a narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
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- Evaluating the association of transferring governance of correctional health care services with overdose and all-cause mortality: a retrospective cohort study in British Columbia, Canada.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Overall and substance use-specific healthcare utilization among individuals with and without criminal justice involvement in Ontario, Canada.International journal of prison health · 2025Article
- Continuing the conversation: practical strategies to enable acceptable and feasible health research in prisons.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- COVID-19 impacts on decarceration for Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in Ontario, Canada: an interrupted time series study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- The State of Mental Health Services for Incarcerated Adults in Ontario: A Scoping Review.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2025Article
- Health and incarceration research in Australia: a scoping review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Review
- Abortion and contraception within prison health care: a qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Medication Utilization at a Provincial Remand Centre.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2025Article
- Exploring the Role of Clinical Pharmacists in the Correctional Health Care Setting: A Narrative Review.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2025Review
- Opioid toxicity deaths in Indigenous people who experienced incarceration in Ontario, Canada 2015-2020: a whole population retrospective cohort study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Bringing experiences of healthcare in custody into quality improvement.Healthcare management forum · 2024Article
- Chronic Psychotic Disorders and Correctional Involvement: A Population-Based Matched Case-Control Study in Ontario, Canada.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2024Article
12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo review the literature for quantitative research on the health status of persons in custody in provincial, territorial, and federal correctional facilities in Canada, and summarize recent evidence. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE: A search was performed in research databases and the websites of relevant Canadian governmental and non-governmental organizations for quantitative studies of health conducted between 1993 and 2014. Studies were included that provided quantitative data on health status for youth or adults who had been detained or incarcerated in a jail or prison in Canada. MAIN MESSAGE: The health status of this population is poor compared with the general Canadian population, as indicated by data on social determinants of health, mortality in custody, mental health, substance use, communicable diseases, and sexual and reproductive health. Little is known about mortality after release, chronic diseases, injury, reproductive health, and health care access and quality.
conclusionHealth status data should be used to improve health care and to intervene to improve health for persons while in custody and after release, with potential benefits for all Canadians.
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