title: Health priorities among women recently released from jail.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the health priorities of women recently released from jail.
  
  
  METHODS
  We open-coded semi-structured interview transcripts collected from 28 women within 6 months after their release from jail to identify themes associated with prioritization of health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five out of 28 women listed health as their top post-release priority. However, many women had competing priorities after release, including housing, employment, and children. We found that women described several reasons why health was not a priority; however, participants reported regular use of the healthcare system upon release from jail, indicating that health was important to them to some degree.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings from may inform intervention efforts that connect women to healthcare resources and increase health-promoting behavior during the transition from jail to community.
authors.affiliation: Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA. mramaswamy@kumc.edu.
authors.forename: Megha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramaswamy
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Satyasree
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Upadhyayula
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Ka Yee Clara
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Kylie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA.
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leonardo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*