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dc.contributor.authorSutherland, Georgina
dc.contributor.authorCarroll, Megan
dc.contributor.authorLennox, Nicholas G.
dc.contributor.authorKinner, Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-14T00:26:35Z
dc.date.available2017-08-14T00:26:35Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn2194-7899
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s40352-015-0019-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/171811
dc.description.abstractBackground 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.place10.1186%2Fs40352-015-0019-1
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom8-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto8-4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHealth & Justice
dc.relation.ispartofvolume3
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic Health and Health Services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160299
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1117
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1602
dc.titlePrescribed contraceptives among woman after release from prison
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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gro.rights.copyright© 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.
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gro.griffith.authorKinner, Stuart A.


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