An analysis of the State

A Call to Action to Public Health Institutions and Teaching to Incorporate Mass Incarceration as a Sociostructural Determinant of Health

“…This complex structure has implications for collaborations with health departments and health care entities, 13 access to services (eg, Medicaid) during and after incarceration, 17 and funding. 18 This structure also has implications for what data are collected from criminal legal systems and how they are made available-dictating if and how researchers can access the data. While schools and programs of public health often offer courses on working with data from health care and other databases, they lack courses on accessing and using data from criminal legal systems, further making these data difficult to use.…”