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Health Status of Females Who Experience Incarceration: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Abstract

Background: People who experience incarceration have poor health across a variety of indicators, but we lack population-level data on the health of females in particular. We examined the health status of females released from provincial prison, and compared their data with data for males released from provincial prison and females in the general population in Ontario, Canada in 2010. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using …

Authors

Norris E; Kim M; Osei B; Fung K; Kouyoumdjian FG

Journal

Journal of Women's Health, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 1107–1115

Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert

Publication Date

August 1, 2021

DOI

10.1089/jwh.2020.8943

ISSN

1540-9996