Capacity-building strategies that support correctional and justice health professionals to provide best-evidenced based healthcare for people in prison: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The United Nations (UN) 2015 'Mandela Rules' stipulates that people in prison will have access to equivalent healthcare to other community members. This expectation has challenged prisons in high-income countries to strengthen healthcare delivery to better meet the needs of the growing number of incarcerated First Nations and older, frailer people, many with complex healthcare needs. Yet little is known about correctional and justice health professionals' ('prison workforces') capacity to identify and support people in prisons with complex healthcare needs.

Aim

To identify the post-Mandela Rules strategies that have increased the prison workforce's capacity to provide evidence-based healthcare.

Methods

A systematic review. Three health and Criminal Justice

SUBMITTER: Hooper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12039081 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature