Network for Justice Health

描述（由申请人提供）：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，并且不成比例地涉及少数民族和弱势群体的生活。司法保健网络是由dr。乔治梅森大学的凯瑟琳·A·加拉格尔和费伊·s·塔克斯曼致力于解决服务不足人群的公共卫生需求。在医疗保健研究和质量局（AHRQ）结果和证据中心（COE）的合作下，正义卫生网络将实现持续开放获取传播会议产生的资源的目标。正义卫生网络的目标是建立一个由研究人员和决策者组成的全球“合作实验室”，解决涉及司法的人群的健康和卫生保健问题。该网络是围绕以下原则建立的：1)越来越多的证据表明，与普通人群相比，司法系统中涉及的个人有更高比例的未解决的身心健康障碍；2)没有充分发展证据基础来描述问题的普遍性、解决问题所需的做法和治疗方法，也没有制定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实现；3)初步研究表明，司法系统没有提供足够的照顾，以改善这一人口的整体功能；4)保健提供者往往没有适当的循证临床指南来处理和改善健康和与健康有关的结果（例如，见美国儿科协会，2001年）。这将推动该领域为这一医疗复杂且通常得不到充分服务的人群制定循证指南，从而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。第一个产品将是跨相关领域（定义如下）的研究策略的生成，以及评估进展的时间表和评分方案。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。网络会议也可用于会后的后续行动和正在进行的委员会会议。第三套产品面向研究和政策界，包括特刊上的一系列特邀文章、司法卫生网络成员（如联合主任Catherine Gallagher和Faye Taxman）撰写的一篇关于司法循证实践（EBP）的评论文章。决赛将是面向全国和全球个人的开放式网络资源。这将包括汇编有关司法卫生主题的现有研究和证据，获取编码书目信息以进行快速和免费的证据搜索，以及自动绘图和绘图编程，以提供与司法卫生有关的条件、人群和环境之间的知识领域和差距的可视化显示。通过AHRQ会议拨款申请支持三次会议（2010年2月23日至26日在亚利桑那州凤凰城；2011年2月22日至25日，洛杉矶；2012年2月21日至24日，华盛顿特区）。

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.