ArticleAnnals of family medicine2018
Access to Primary Care for Persons Recently Released From Prison.
Article in Annals of family medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Examining Access to Primary Care for People With Opioid Use Disorder in Ontario, Canada: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Methods and tools used to assess patient experience with healthcare services in prisons: a scoping review.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2026Article
- Overall and substance use-specific healthcare utilization among individuals with and without criminal justice involvement in Ontario, Canada.International journal of prison health · 2025Article
- "Equipping and enabling" health literacy during a "time of change": understanding health literacy and organisational health literacy responsiveness for people leaving prison in later life.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Determinants of access to primary healthcare for formerly incarcerated women transitioning into the community: a systematic review of the literature.BMJ public health · 2024Article
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- "Just clearly the right thing to do": perspectives of correctional services leaders on moving governance of health-care in custody.International journal of prison health · 2024Article
- Prompt access to outpatient care post-incarceration among adults with a history of substance use: Predisposing, enabling, and need-based factors.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
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- Challenging Health Inequities in Incarceration: a Call for Equitable Care for Kidney Disease and Hypertension.Current hypertension reports · 2023Review
- Record linkage studies of primary care utilisation after release from prison: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Association Between Civil Legal Needs After Incarceration, Psychosocial Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2023Article
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- Slipping through: mobility's influence on infectious disease risks for justice-involved women in Canada.Health & justice · 2021Article
- Health Disparities of People Living in the Community on Probation: A Call to Action for Community and Public Health Systems.American journal of public health · 2020Article
- Perceived Discrimination Based on Criminal Record in Healthcare Settings and Self-Reported Health Status among Formerly Incarcerated Individuals.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
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- Attachment to primary care and team-based primary care: Retrospective cohort study of people who experienced imprisonment in Ontario.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019Article
- Care of Justice-Involved Populations.Missouri medicineArticle
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Abstract
We aimed to determine if a history of recent imprisonment affects access to primary care. Using patient roles, we telephoned to request an initial appointment with all family physicians (n = 339) who were accepting new patients in British Columbia, Canada. We sequentially assigned patient scenarios: male or female recently released from prison; male or female control. Controls were 1.98 (95% CI, 1.59-2.46) times as likely to be offered an appointment compared with persons recently released from prison, with an absolute risk difference of 41.8% (95% CI, 31.0-52.5). Our study suggests discrimination is a barrier to primary care for people released from prison, even with universal health insurance. We need to improve access to primary care during the high-risk period following prison release.
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