“I Don’t Just Take Whatever They Hand to Me”: How Women Recently Released from Incarceration Access Internet Health Information

Women transitioning from incarceration often reenter society with multiple barriers to affordable health care. Many resort to costly emergency department visits, and others turn to online health information to compensate for gaps in their health care. Interviews with 74 previously incarcerated women...

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VerfasserInnen: Schuster, Bernard (VerfasserIn) ; Britton, Hannah (VerfasserIn) ; Seo, Hyunjin (VerfasserIn) ; Altschwager, Darcey (VerfasserIn) ; Booton, Eli (VerfasserIn) ; Ault, Marilyn (VerfasserIn) ; Wickliffe, Joi (VerfasserIn) ; Ramaswamy, Megha (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2024
In: Women & criminal justice
Jahr: 2024, Band: 34, Heft: 5, Seiten: 306–322
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underserved women
incarcerated
Health literacy
Health Information
Digital literacy
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Zusammenfassung:Women transitioning from incarceration often reenter society with multiple barriers to affordable health care. Many resort to costly emergency department visits, and others turn to online health information to compensate for gaps in their health care. Interviews with 74 previously incarcerated women were conducted in 2019–2020 in three midwestern cities. Qualitative and quantitative analysis revealed that, while most participants used the internet for health information, their perceptions of the reliability varied. Many participants expressed a need for additional reliable sources of health information and ways to verify it. These findings support the importance of high-quality digital health literacy interventions.
ISSN:1541-0323
DOI:10.1080/08974454.2022.2040692