Jail Provision of Pregnancy and Sexual Health Services in Four Midwestern States.

Objective: Women incarcerated in local jails have pregnancy and sexual health needs, yet little information is available about what services are provided and how jail administrators prioritize this care. Our objective was to document jails' provision of pregnancy and sexual health services in four states in the Midwest.

Methods: We invited all jail administrators (N = 347) in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska to participate in a web-based survey conducted from November 2017 to October 2018.

Cervical Cancer Risk and Prevention Practices Among Sexual Minority Women with Criminal-Legal System Involvement.

Women with criminal-legal system involvement bear a disproportionate burden of cervical cancer, indeed 4-5 times more than women without criminal-legal system involvement. While we also know that sexual minority identification (lesbian/gay, queer, bisexual, or not straight) is more common among women with criminal-legal system involvement, we lack understanding of the cervical cancer risk and prevention practices of this group of women. In 2019-2020, we used surveys to investigate cervical cancer risk and prevention practices among 510 women with criminal-legal system involvement in Kansas City (KS and MO), Oakland (CA), and Birmingham (AL).

Social Resources, Abortion, and Contraceptive Use Among Women With Criminal Justice Histories.

Women in the criminal legal system face structural barriers to social resources such as education, employment, and benefits. Little is known how these resources intersect with their reproductive lives, specifically with obtaining abortions. We explored the relationship between social resources and abortion history among women incarcerated in a county jail through a secondary analysis of survey data from a 2014 to 2016 jail-based sexual health intervention.

Physical health programs and interventions with women during incarceration: a scoping review.

Purpose: The USA outpaces most other countries in the world in the rates at which it incarcerates its citizens. The one million women held in US jails and prisons on any day in the USA face many physical health challenges, yet interventional work to address physical health in carceral settings is rare. This study's purpose was to summarize the literature on programs and interventions implemented with women in US carceral settings (jail or prison) that primarily addressed a physical health issue or need.

Differences in abortion-related knowledge among women involved in the criminal legal system in three US cities.

Objective: We examined if abortion-related knowledge among women with criminal legal system involvement differed in three U.S. cities in states with varying abortion policies.

Abnormal Pap Follow-Up among Criminal-Legal Involved Women in Three U.S. Cities.

Criminal-legal involved women experience significant barriers to preventive cervical care, and consequently there is a higher incidence of cervical cancer in this population. The purpose of this study is to identify variables that may facilitate abnormal Pap follow-up among criminal-legal involved women living in community settings. The study included = 510 women with criminal-legal histories, from three U.

Health and Health Service Needs: Comparison of Older and Younger Women with Criminal-Legal Involvement in Three Cities.

We profiled the health and health services needs of a sample of older adult women (age 50+) with criminal-legal system (CLS) involvement and compared them with younger women (age 18-49), also CLS-involved. : Using survey data collected from January to June 2020 from adult women with CLS involvement in three US cities, we profiled and compared the older adult women with younger women on behavioral and structural risk factors, health conditions, and health services access and use. One-third (157/510) were age 50+.

Recommendations for Delivering COVID-19 Vaccine in Jails: Evidence from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri.

We report on data we collected from a 2018 survey examining jails' human papillomavirus virus vaccine delivery capacity and on a secondary analysis we conducted to describe factors similarly associated with delivery planning for the COVID-19 vaccine. We provide recommendations for delivering the COVID-19 vaccine in jails, based on evidence from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. Our key finding is that jails have limited staff to implement vaccination and will require collaboration between jail administrators, jail medical staff, and local health departments.

Facebook as a follow-up tool for women with criminal justice histories.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to measure Facebook (FB) use as a tool for maintaining research contact with hard-to-reach women with criminal justice histories.

Design/methodology/approach: Retrospective data were analyzed from a jail health intervention. Bivariate analysis compared the rates of follow-up between FB group users and non-FB group users at one post-intervention time point.

An Analysis of How Characteristics of Local Health Department Jurisdictions Influence Involvement in PHAB Accreditation: Implications for Health Equity.

Objective: To explore how characteristics of local health department (LHD) jurisdictions impact involvement in Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation and to characterize the implications for health equity.

Methods: Data from the 2016 National Profile of LHDs survey were linked with data from the American Community Survey, National Center for Health Statistics, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and the 2016 presidential election. Outcome measures included LHDs that were formally engaged in PHAB accreditation and LHDs that planned to apply for PHAB accreditation but were not formally engaged.

Developing a Cancer Prevention Health Education Resource: a Primer of Process and Evaluation.

Limited women's health and cancer prevention materials are available that have been validated for vulnerable populations. Such materials are especially important for groups, which have intermittent and typically low-quality healthcare access and are at greatest risk for missing out on women's health and cancer prevention screening. Health education materials are developed from heterogeneous sources.

Troponoids Can Inhibit Growth of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.

is a pathogen that is common in immunosuppressed patients. It can be treated with amphotericin B and fluconazole, but the mortality rate remains 15 to 30%. Thus, novel and more effective anticryptococcal therapies are needed.