The authors analyzed women prisoners' use of health care co-payments, and how they affect and view the impact of their access to healthcare. A total of 31 recently released women were recruited to complete a demographic form of questions related to co-payments in jail. The women were recruited from community-based  participatory re- search, the investigators maintained contact with Community Advisory Board members from a local advocacy agency that assists women transitioning from jail or prison to the community.Women reported inequitable administration of the co-payments made care more costly and cost contributed to decisions to forego care.

Anastasia A. Fisher, RN, DNSc, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at San Francisco StateUniversity.Diane C. Hatton, RN, DNSc, is Professor and Associate Director for Research at San Diego State University.Our book, Women Prisoners and Health Justice: Per-spectives,  Issues  and  Advocacy  for  an  InternationalHidden  Population,  was  recently  published  by  Rad-cliffe Publishing Company.A. A. Fisher and D. C. Hatton / Women’s Health Issues 20 (2010) 185–192192

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