Health and service access challenges for correctional offenders with mental health and substance use problems in transition from incarceration to community : a literature review.: PS83-5/R398E-PDF

"This study compiled a narrative review of the literature identifying: health problems and breakdown of access to care and services for offenders with mental health and substance use issues during transition from incarceration to the community, the factors contributing to these outcomes, and evaluated interventions or approaches for mitigating these harms over the last twenty years"--Why we did this study.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Correctional Service Canada. Research Branch.
Title Health and service access challenges for correctional offenders with mental health and substance use problems in transition from incarceration to community : a literature review.
Series title Research at a glance ; R-398
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Analyse documentaire sur les difficultés liées à l’accès aux services et aux soins de santé pour les délinquants aux prises avec des problèmes de santé mentale et de toxicomanie pendant leur transition de l’incarcération vers la collectivité.
Caption title.
"October 2018."
Issued also in HTML format.
Includes bibliographic references.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Correctional Service Canada, 2018.
Description 1 online resource ([1] page).
Catalogue number
  • PS83-5/R398E-PDF
Subject terms Inmates
Mental health
Drug addiction
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