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  • Prescribed contraceptives among woman after release from prison

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    Sutherland, Georgina
    Carroll, Megan
    Lennox, Nicholas G.
    Kinner, Stuart
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    Kinner, Stuart A.
    Year published
    2015
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    Background Despite the high rates of unintended and complicated pregnancy among women who have spent time in prison, little is known about their use of prescribed contraceptives post-prison release. We used a routinely-collected medicine utilisation dataset linked to a longitudinal cohort of adults released from prison to describe the dispensing of contraceptive medication. Findings The socio-demographic profiles of women in the cohort were characteristic of justice-involved populations: they were young, poorly educated, unemployed prior to incarceration, with a very high proportion identifying as Indigenous. Dispensing ...
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    Background Despite the high rates of unintended and complicated pregnancy among women who have spent time in prison, little is known about their use of prescribed contraceptives post-prison release. We used a routinely-collected medicine utilisation dataset linked to a longitudinal cohort of adults released from prison to describe the dispensing of contraceptive medication. Findings The socio-demographic profiles of women in the cohort were characteristic of justice-involved populations: they were young, poorly educated, unemployed prior to incarceration, with a very high proportion identifying as Indigenous. Dispensing claims data showed that in the six months (180 days) after release from prison contraceptive medication had been dispensed to only 19 women (7.6%). Conclusion Our findings raise important questions about the reproductive health needs of women in prison and after their release. This requires urgent research and policy attention with a particular focus on the potential benefits of attending to women's sexual and reproductive health care needs in prison in preparation for return to the community.
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    Journal Title
    Health & Justice
    Volume
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-015-0019-1
    Copyright Statement
    © Sutherland et al.; licensee Springer. 2015. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
    Subject
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Public Health and Health Services
    Criminology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/171811
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