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A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare

BACKGROUND: In the criminal justice system, special populations, such as older adults or patients with infectious diseases, have been identified as particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Military veterans involved in the criminal justice system are also a vulnerable population warranting a...

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Autores principales: Finlay, Andrea K., Owens, Mandy D., Taylor, Emmeline, Nash, Amia, Capdarest-Arest, Nicole, Rosenthal, Joel, Blue-Howells, Jessica, Clark, Sean, Timko, Christine
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6718001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-019-0086-9
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author Finlay, Andrea K.
Owens, Mandy D.
Taylor, Emmeline
Nash, Amia
Capdarest-Arest, Nicole
Rosenthal, Joel
Blue-Howells, Jessica
Clark, Sean
Timko, Christine
author_facet Finlay, Andrea K.
Owens, Mandy D.
Taylor, Emmeline
Nash, Amia
Capdarest-Arest, Nicole
Rosenthal, Joel
Blue-Howells, Jessica
Clark, Sean
Timko, Christine
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description BACKGROUND: In the criminal justice system, special populations, such as older adults or patients with infectious diseases, have been identified as particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Military veterans involved in the criminal justice system are also a vulnerable population warranting attention because of their unique healthcare needs. This review aims to provide an overview of existing literature on justice-involved veterans’ health and healthcare to identify research gaps and inform policy and practice. METHODS: A systematic search was conducted to identify research articles related to justice-involved veterans’ health and healthcare that were published prior to December 2017. Study characteristics including healthcare category, study design, sample size, and funding source were extracted and summarized with the aim of providing an overview of extant literature. RESULTS: The search strategy initially identified 1830 unique abstracts with 1387 abstracts then excluded. Full-text review of 443 articles was conducted with 252 excluded. There were 191 articles included, most related to veterans’ mental health (130/191, 68%) or homelessness (24/191, 13%). Most studies used an observational design (173/191, 91%). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge gaps identified from the review provide guidance on future areas of research. Studies on different sociodemographic groups, medical conditions, and the management of multiple conditions and psychosocial challenges are needed. Developing and testing interventions, especially randomized trials, to address justice-involved veterans care needs will help to improve their health and healthcare. Finally, an integrated conceptual framework that draws from diverse disciplines, such as criminology, health services, psychology, and implementation science is needed to inform research, policy and practice focused on justice-involved veterans. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40352-019-0086-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-67180012019-09-06 A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare Finlay, Andrea K. Owens, Mandy D. Taylor, Emmeline Nash, Amia Capdarest-Arest, Nicole Rosenthal, Joel Blue-Howells, Jessica Clark, Sean Timko, Christine Health Justice Research Article BACKGROUND: In the criminal justice system, special populations, such as older adults or patients with infectious diseases, have been identified as particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Military veterans involved in the criminal justice system are also a vulnerable population warranting attention because of their unique healthcare needs. This review aims to provide an overview of existing literature on justice-involved veterans’ health and healthcare to identify research gaps and inform policy and practice. METHODS: A systematic search was conducted to identify research articles related to justice-involved veterans’ health and healthcare that were published prior to December 2017. Study characteristics including healthcare category, study design, sample size, and funding source were extracted and summarized with the aim of providing an overview of extant literature. RESULTS: The search strategy initially identified 1830 unique abstracts with 1387 abstracts then excluded. Full-text review of 443 articles was conducted with 252 excluded. There were 191 articles included, most related to veterans’ mental health (130/191, 68%) or homelessness (24/191, 13%). Most studies used an observational design (173/191, 91%). CONCLUSIONS: Knowledge gaps identified from the review provide guidance on future areas of research. Studies on different sociodemographic groups, medical conditions, and the management of multiple conditions and psychosocial challenges are needed. Developing and testing interventions, especially randomized trials, to address justice-involved veterans care needs will help to improve their health and healthcare. Finally, an integrated conceptual framework that draws from diverse disciplines, such as criminology, health services, psychology, and implementation science is needed to inform research, policy and practice focused on justice-involved veterans. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40352-019-0086-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6718001/ /pubmed/30963311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-019-0086-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Finlay, Andrea K.
Owens, Mandy D.
Taylor, Emmeline
Nash, Amia
Capdarest-Arest, Nicole
Rosenthal, Joel
Blue-Howells, Jessica
Clark, Sean
Timko, Christine
A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare
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title_fullStr A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare
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title_short A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6718001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-019-0086-9
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