Prompt access to outpatient care post-incarceration among adults with a history of substance use: Predisposing, enabling, and need-based factors.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As expanded Medicaid coverage reduces financial barriers to receiving health care among formerly incarcerated adults, more information is needed to understand the factors that predict prompt use of health care after release among insured adults with a history of substance use. This study's aim was to estimate the associations between characteristics suggested by the Andersen behavioral model of health service use and measures of health care use during the immediate reentry period and in the presence of Medicaid coverage.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, we linked individual-level data from multiple Wisconsin agencies. The sample included individuals aged 18-64 released from a Wisconsin State Correctional Facility between April 2014 and June 2017 to a

SUBMITTER: McNamara C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11060918 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature