Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding of prison health research: a descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health research provides a means to define health status and to identify ways to improve health. Our objective was to define the proportion of grants and funding from the Government of Canada's health research investment agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), that was awarded for prison health research, and to describe the characteristics of funded grants.

Methods

In this descriptive study, we defined prison health research as research on the health and health care of people in prisons and at the time of their release. We searched the CIHR Funding Decisions Database by subject and by investigator name for funded grants for prison health research in Canada in all competitions between 2010 and 2014. We calculated the proportion of grants and fund

SUBMITTER: Kouyoumdjian FG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378501 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature