Network for Justice Health

美国司法系统在任何一天都控制着近800万年轻人和成年人，不成比例地触及少数民族和弱势群体的生活。正义健康网络是由凯瑟琳·加拉格尔博士和法耶·S。乔治梅森大学的税务员，以满足未得到充分服务的人口的公共卫生需求。与医疗保健研究和质量机构（AHRQ）的成果和证据中心（COE）合作，正义健康网络将实现持续开放获取会议产生的资源的目标。司法健康网络旨在建立一个研究人员和决策者的全球“合作实验室”，解决涉及司法的人口的健康和保健问题。该网络是围绕以下原则建立的：（1）越来越多的证据表明，司法系统所涉个人的未解决身心健康问题比率高于一般人口中的对应者; 2）证据基础尚未充分发展，以描述问题的普遍性，解决问题所需的做法和治疗，也没有支持改善健康结果的政策，现有证据的潜力也没有得到充分发挥;（3）初步研究表明，司法系统没有提供适当的护理，以改善这一人口的整体功能;以及，4）卫生保健提供者通常没有足够的基于证据的临床指南来解决和改善健康和健康相关的结果（参见，例如，美国儿科协会，2001年）。这将推动该领域为这一医学上复杂和通常得不到充分服务的人群制定循证指南，以便改善健康和与健康有关的结果。预期的会议相关产品可分为四个部分。第一项成果将是制定一项跨相关领域（定义见下文）的研究战略以及评估进展的时间轴和分级计划。第二套产品包括文件和分发与会议有关的材料，包括会议记录摘要。网络研讨会也将提供给那些无法参加。还将为会后后续行动和正在举行的委员会会议提供网络会议。第三套产品是针对研究和政策界，包括一系列特邀文章在一个特殊的期刊问题，一个审查文章的循证实践（EBP）的司法参与个人的网络司法健康，如共同董事凯瑟琳·加拉格尔和费伊Taxman。最后将是一个开放的访问，基于网络的资源，为全国各地的个人和地球仪。这将包括汇编现有的研究和证据的司法健康主题，获得编码的书目信息，快速和免费的证据搜索，自动绘图和绘图编程，将提供视觉显示的知识领域和差距的条件，人口和设置有关司法健康。通过AHRQ会议赠款请求对三次会议的支持（2010年2月23日至26日，亚利桑那州凤凰城; 2011年2月22日至25日，洛杉矶; 2012年2月21日至24日，华盛顿，华盛顿特区） 公共卫生相关性：在任何一天，美国司法系统控制的800万人的未解决身心健康障碍的比率都远远高于普通人群。正义网络健康会议将协调关于消除这些健康差距的循证做法的研究，确定高度优先的研究领域，并为决策者和护理提供者开发开放式传播和培训工具。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The U.S. Justice system controls nearly 8 million young people and adults on any given day, and disproportionately touches the lives of minority and disadvantaged populations. The Network for Justice Health was established by Drs. Catherine A Gallagher and Faye S. Taxman at George Mason University to attend to the unmet public health needs of an underserved population. With the partnership of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Center for Outcomes and Evidence (COE), the Network for Justice Health will the goal of on-going open-access dissemination of conference-generated resources. The Network for Justice Health aims to create a global 'collaboratory' of researchers and policy makers addressing health and health care issues of justice-involved populations. The Network is built around these principles: 1) Mounting evidence suggests that individuals involved in the justice system have higher rates of unresolved physical and mental health disorders than their counterparts in the general population; 2) The evidence-base has not been adequately developed to describe the prevalence of the problem, the practices and treatments needed to address the problems, nor the policies to support improvements in health outcomes, nor has the potential of existing evidence been fully realized; 3) Initial studies demonstrate that the justice system does not provide adequate care to improve the overall functioning of this population; and, 4) Health care providers often do not have adequate evidence-based clinical guidelines for addressing and improving health and health-related outcomes (see, e.g., American Pediatric Association, 2001). This will move the field forward in establishing evidence-based guidelines for this medically complex and typically underserved population so that health and health-related outcomes may be improved. The anticipated conference related products may be divided into four components. The first product will be the generation of a research strategy across the relevant domains (defined below) and a timeline and grading scheme for assessing progress. The second set of products includes documentation and distribution of conference-related materials, including summaries of conference proceedings. Webinars will also be available to those unable to participate. Web-conferencing will also be available for post-meeting follow-up and ongoing committee meetings. A third set of products are aimed at the research and policy community, and include a series of invited articles in a special journal issue, a review article on evidence-based practice (EBP) for justice involved individuals by members of the Network for Justice Health such as co-directors Catherine Gallagher and Faye Taxman. The final will be an open-access, web-based resources for individuals around the country and globe. These will include a compilation of existing research and evidence on justice health topics, access to coded bibliographic information for rapid and free evidence searching, and automated mapping and graphing programming that will provide visual displays of knowledge areas and gaps across conditions, populations, and settings related to justice health. Support for three conferences is requested through AHRQ conference grants (February 23-26, 2010 in Phoenix AZ; February 22-25, 2011, Los Angeles; & February 21-24, 2012, Washington, D.C.) PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The 8 million people controlled by the U.S. Justice system on any given day have much higher rates of unresolved physical and mental health disorders than their counterparts in the general population. The Network for Justice Health Conference will coordinate research on evidence based practices to combat these health disparities, identify high-priority areas of research, and develop open-access dissemination and training tools for decision-makers and care providers.