Publication date: Feb 13, 2025
Community members returning from incarceration experience serious health disparities, which intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, community health workers with lived experience of incarceration in the Transitions Clinic Network established a California reentry health care hotline to support time-sensitive linkages to postrelease medical care. From June 2020 to June 2023, the hotline supported 1276 people transitioning from incarceration. Lessons from this peer-led public health intervention are relevant for states utilizing Medicaid waivers to improve health equity for justice-involved populations. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print February 13, 2025:e1-e4. https://doi. org/10. 2105/AJPH. 2024. 307969).
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| California | California |
| February | Care |
| Medicaid | Clinic |
| Pandemic | Community |
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| Hotline | |
| Incarceration | |
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| Reentry | |
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Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
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| disease | MESH | health disparities |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |
| disease | IDO | intervention |