New Managed Care Study Results from Rutgers University – The State University of New Jersey Described (Stuck In the Cycle? Assessing a Reciprocal Model of Incarceration, Health, and Relative Risk Over Twenty-five Years): Managed Care

2022 SEP 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news reporting originating in Camden, New Jersey, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Researchers have chronicled a complex relationship between incarceration exposure and health, yet prior studies do not account for reciprocal dynamics or cycles of reentry over time. We analyzed bi-directional relationships between incarceration exposure and mental and general health over twenty five years using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth -1997.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey, “We employed lagged autoregressive panel and lagged latent growth models to assess between-and within-individual dynamics of incarceration, health, and reentry. We then tested for differences in patterns of incarceration exposure and health among two high relative health risk groups, Black men and those with limited access to health insurance. Symptoms of depression and anxiety predict subsequent incarceration exposure in both between-and within-individual change models. Within-individual change in self-rated general health is positively and reciprocally associated with incarceration exposure. This relationship is substantially greater for Black men and those with limited access to health insurance. The findings underscore key issues of relative health risk that influence the dynamics of incarcer-ation exposure and health inequities.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Programmatic efforts to address mental health concerns like depression and anxiety in the community and within correctional settings may be useful in reducing cycles of incarceration.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Stuck In the Cycle? Assessing a Reciprocal Model of Incarceration, Health, and Relative Risk Over Twenty-five Years. Journal of Criminal Justice, 2022;82:101963. Journal of Criminal Justice can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Criminal Justice - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-criminal-justice/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Daniel C. Semenza, Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey, Dept. of Sociology Anthropology & Criminal Justice, 405-7 Cooper St, Camden, NJ 08102, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101963. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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