Background: Incarcerated women often access health care primarily through contact with
correctional systems. Cervical cancer screening within the correctional system can address …

Objectives: to identify, map and describe characteristics of educational interventions for
cervical cancer prevention in adult women. Methods: a scoping review conducted on eleven …

Jailed women are four-five times more likely to have had cervical cancer compared to
women without criminal justice histories. Previous research has shown that an important …

Background Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world. In 2016, the female
prison population totaled 42,000, an increase of 656% over the population recorded in the …

Objective: To describe the health priorities of women recently released from jail. Method: We
open-coded semi-structured interview transcripts collected from 28 women within 6 months …

The objective of this study was to understand factors associated with women's ability to
engage in cervical cancer prevention and follow-up care given ongoing criminal justice …

Context and objective Incarcerated women are more vulnerable to developing cervical
cancer than women in general; therefore, screening and intervention programs must be …

Purpose: To assess effectiveness, 1-year post-intervention, of a program delivered in jails
with women to improve cervical health literacy (CHL) and up-to-date Papanicolaou (Pap) …

Importance Women who experience imprisonment have higher rates of cervical cancer.
Lack of access to cervical cancer screening in the community or in prison may contribute to …

Background High rates of health inequalities and chronic non-communicable diseases exist
amongst the prison population. This places people in and/or released from prison at …