tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74548491736641781012024-03-20T01:03:30.456-07:00Stewards of ChangeDaniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-34177163290966840342016-04-14T09:15:00.001-07:002016-04-14T09:18:45.138-07:00Looking for Answers: From the Opioid Crisis . . . to a Network of Networks . . . to a New Curriculum<div class="MsoNormal">
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Open data, information-sharing, data standards and interoperability may not be the answers to every question, but there’s no doubt that they are pivotal components in addressing many challenges confronting the health and human services field. And the latest – and most urgent example to buttress this point is the exploding opioid/heroin epidemic sweeping the country. </div>
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Officials at every level of government, nonprofit organizations and communities of all socio/demographic makeup across the nation are grappling with how to address this alarming phenomenon. It stands to reason that by now we should be able to share critical data and learn from each other in order to Identify root cause issues, raise awareness and formulate and implement data informed solutions. But unfortunately - it still ain’t so! </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open Data, at its heart, is about
opening doors – doors to sharing vital information, doors to stimulating
innovation, doors to making progress and improving lives. Recently, I learned
that there are even more possibilities behind yet another door, one that for
too long has stood barely ajar at the intersection of academic research and
Open Data. That began to change at an exciting symposium that Stewards of
Change Institute and the California Health and Human Services Agency held at
Stanford University just a few weeks ago.</span></div>
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<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2016/03/an-exhilarating-event-at-stanford-and.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-60769906106991018902016-01-29T07:59:00.000-08:002016-01-29T10:36:56.897-08:00Looking Back to See the Future More Clearly<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As the first month of 2016 zooms by, Stewards of
Change is embarking on what promises to be its busiest and most productive year
ever – which leads me to think about how far our field has come during the
decade since SOC came into being. In particular, I remember our first national
symposium at Yale, where we started a conversation about information-sharing
among health and human service programs. </span><br>
</div><a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2016/01/looking-back-to-see-future-more-clearly.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-82366567148068697482015-09-10T12:40:00.005-07:002015-09-10T12:51:56.821-07:002nd Blog in This 3-Part Glass-is-Half-Full Series: The Path to Progress is Paved with Social Determinants<span style="mso-bookmark: _MailEndCompose;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailEndCompose;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you haven’t
checked it out yet, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Leadership Network (in
which I’m delighted to participate) is a consistently interesting and
thought-provoking component of RWJF’s bold, expansive effort to create a
Culture of Health in our country. I particularly liked </span></span><a href="https://tdahlborg.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/defining-true-measures-of-healthcare-success/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailEndCompose;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">one of the latest commentaries</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailEndCompose;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
on this Linked-In site, which I urge you to read. It hits home for me partly
because of its optimistic “we can do it” tone, which clearly comports with my
own view of the future of health and human services in the U.S., but mainly
because its headline resonates so strongly with the work that the Stewards of
Change Institute has been doing: “Defining the measures of healthcare success.”</span></span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/09/2nd-blog-in-this-3-part-glass-is-half.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-12167503010232195852015-08-16T09:36:00.001-07:002015-08-17T06:46:32.447-07:00Pessimists Beware: This is the First of Three Blogs on Government Progress in Interoperability, Information-Sharing . . . and Social Determinants of Health and Wellness<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">It’s election season, so we all
hear routinely from candidates across the political spectrum about what
government <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doesn’t</i> do, about how
inefficient it is and about how it doesn’t really strive to serve people. I’m
not going to take sides in that debate, but the optimist in me has to weigh in
with this: What gets lost in the cacophony of nay-saying is the reality that,
whatever problems may exist, significant advances are being made on some fronts
and the opportunity for even more progress has never been greater.</span></span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/08/pessimists-beware-this-is-first-of.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-49146748428168572512015-07-02T09:57:00.000-07:002015-07-02T11:57:34.118-07:00Musings from Our 10th Annual Symposium – and Planning for Another Decade of Progress <span style="font-family: Calibri;">The title of last week’s 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Anniversary
Stewards of Change Symposium was quite a mouthful – “Harnessing the Power of
Information Operability and Social Determinants to Advance Health and Wellness
Integration” – but I’m very glad to report that it provided just the right
focus and framing for the event. I’m even happier to report that many of our
100+ attendees left saying they were inspired by what they’d heard and learned
– and, best of all, many said that the knowledge they acquired would enable
them to make substantive improvements in their own organizations’ projects and
practices.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/07/musings-from-our-10th-annual-symposium.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-47770767881640092832015-06-19T07:22:00.003-07:002015-06-19T07:27:02.783-07:00Elementary, Dear Watson, the Symposium is about Change . . . and the Future<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While preparing for
the Stewards of Change </span></i><a href="http://www.stewardsofchange.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Anniversary National
Symposium</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> – which begins next
Monday at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore – SOCI President Daniel Stein
met by phone a few days ago with IBM Global Business Consultant Joseph
Fiorentino and </span><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Martin Duggan, who leads the IBM Curam Research
Institute. Here are edited highlights of their conversation.</span></em></i><br>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></em></i><br>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></em></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Daniel: Five years ago, when IBM first presented at our
symposium about your supercomputer, Watson, some of the predictions about the
future use of computing in the health and human services realm just blew me
away. Can you talk a bit about the progress we’ve made and where you see us
heading now?</span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/06/elementary-dear-watson-symposium-is_19.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-19193383487185467322015-06-14T20:47:00.000-07:002015-06-14T20:47:45.101-07:00It’s Health and (not or) Human Services!<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>By Wade F. Horn, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">With the 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Annual Stewards of Change National
Symposium just around the corner, I’ve been thinking a good bit about the
presentation I’ll be giving there – and I’m excited by it. Here’s why: For more
years than I’d care to admit, I’ve been arguing that one major reason we
haven’t made more progress in improving the lives of Americans is because, in
policy and practice at every level, we’ve too often acted as though HHS is an
abbreviation for health <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>or</u></i>
human services rather than health <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>and</u></i>
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Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI) national symposium, a memorable event at
which about 100 invited thought leaders from across the nation explored “The
Art of the Possible” at the intersection of interoperability and health and
human services. It’s even harder – but wonderful and, frankly, inspiring – to
recall<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the good work we’ve been able to
accomplish between the time of that symposium and the 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
Anniversary edition that will take place next month.</span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/05/exciting-times-ahead-major-grant-and.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-87141450677329583712015-04-29T07:21:00.000-07:002015-04-30T07:08:04.822-07:00A Long View, Far Away<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’ve noticed recently that articles and blogs on Application Programming Interfaces (API) for Health Information Technology are beginning to trickle out in the media, and proclamations of the API as the “key” to unlock interoperability of health systems and data are building. And it’s about time, but it seems somewhat pale in view of the activity “across the pond”. Over here in the US, thousands of miles away from the European Union (EU), it’s easy to miss what is happening there, and it seems useful to review what the EU is doing and why.</span></span></h2></div><a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-long-view-far-away.html#more">Read more »</a>Shell Culphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11474673274967798454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-69080797524969857222015-04-02T07:22:00.001-07:002015-04-02T07:23:20.887-07:00The Best Way to Predict the Future: Create It – Robert Wood Johnson Releases `Data for Health’<div class="MsoNormal">
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and Human Services Open DataFest II</a> in California earlier this month: A large
and growing number of professionals in HHS (and related fields) believe that
more information and greater interoperability are vital components to improving
the health and well-being of our country’s children, adults and communities. At
least equally important, more and more of them are now actively engaged in
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<b>Undersecretary, California Health and Human Services Agency</b><br>
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increase transparency and support data-driven decision-making.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> We expect
that this trend will continue and our data will assist government employees, companies
and nonprofit foundations, among others, to make more informed decisions and result
in better outcomes for those who rely on our programs. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Chief
Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director, Esri</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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California Open DataFest II is fast approaching (March 16 and 17)</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">it </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">marks a time of celebration
and </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">coming full circle for me.
You see, as physician</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">scientist
at UC Davis, I yearned for data to be more available to facilitate my research.
My wish would soon come true. In 2013, I went to work for the California
Department of Public Health, as the deputy director in charge of vital records
and informatics. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Partnerships and collaborations (can someone
please explain the difference to me?) are among the most-effective tools all of us
have for doing the best work possible in many if not most circumstances. And,
to my way of thinking, they also demonstrate that we mean what we say about
making interoperability and information-sharing a part of everyday business
life.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-countdown-begins-our-2nd-annual-hhs.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-30896530916730428222015-02-04T06:52:00.002-08:002015-02-05T12:43:18.435-08:00OPEN DATA: A Lot of Sparks, So Why No Wildfire Yet?<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The concept of “Open Data" has <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>excited and frustrated a lot of people over
the years, because it's one of those things that makes total sense on paper, and
therefore “feels” like an idea that will quickly go viral and generate
tremendous value. Yet it hasn't yet, so its supporters are puzzled and reflexively
think the solution must be to educate people and to turn up the volume since, both
intuitively and intellectually, it already should have caught on like wildfire.
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some time with my family, read a couple of chapters of a good book, and then
write a blog wishing everyone a happy 2015 and offering a preview of the
exciting activities that Stewards of Change has on tap for this, our 10<sup abp="167"><span abp="168" style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
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The adage goes something like this: "If you give a family a fish, you feed them for one meal; if you teach them how to fish, you feed them for a lifetime." <br>
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So how in the world, you may ask, does this relate to the work of the Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI) on information-sharing and interoperability? The answer is simple. <br>
</div><a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2014/12/working-for-change-and-improving-lives.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-29469091484891444252014-12-05T07:25:00.000-08:002014-12-05T08:05:18.716-08:00Yes, We Can Share Information, Improve Outcomes AND Protect Privacy!<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m going to start today with a confession: I am a true
believer. Preaching and teaching the value of information-sharing and
interoperability to improve health and human services (and thereby people’s
lives) is not only my job; it is my passion. So I was honored when the National
League of Cities recently asked me to moderate a webinar titled “Sharing Data
for Better Results.” The event took place on Wednesday, December 3, and I’m delighted to report
that over 100
professionals participated, representing all levels of government and industry from
coast to coast. </span><br>
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always a pleasure for me to spread the word about important initiatives in our
world – and even more so when I have the privilege to be involved in one.
That’s the case with an ambitious new effort announced yesterday by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, titled “Data for Health.” Its goal is to “e</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">xplore how information and data on health can be
harnessed to help people lead healthier lives,” largely through a “listening
tour” of five U.S. cities in early 2015. I’m honored (and, honest, humbled
given the company I’m in) to be on the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">advisory
committee for this initiative; to read the Foundation’s press release for more
details, </span><a href="http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/newsroom-content/2014/10/RWJFLaunchesInitiativetoAccessHowDataCanBeUsedtoImproveHealth.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">click
here</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></o:p><a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2014/10/promoting-change-and-making-progress-in.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-45076098986266135352014-09-01T13:21:00.000-07:002014-09-09T09:32:10.490-07:00New York State Confidentiality Toolkit Developed to Assist with Cross System Information Sharing<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">New York State continues in its efforts toward
interoperability and toward using technology to improve services to its
citizens, especially those most vulnerable and in need of public intervention
to reach independence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-york-state-confidentiality-toolkit.html#more">Read more »</a>Stewards of Changehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331913167996190607noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-78492165702983411862014-07-21T07:58:00.000-07:002014-07-21T08:14:52.852-07:00Toward Seamless Information & Referral: A Polycentric Experiment<strong>By Derek Coursen, Adjunct Faculty, NYU Wagner School of Public Service</strong><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Multiple levels of government
and a myriad of nonprofit organizations offer an ever-changing array of specialized
services to people who need them. But who directs traffic through all that
complexity?</span></span><br>
<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2014/07/toward-seamless-information-referral.html#more">Read more »</a>Stewards of Changehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331913167996190607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-78726610274822431132014-06-25T10:19:00.002-07:002014-06-25T10:22:22.043-07:00Our 9th Annual Symposium: Reflections on the Possible<br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the end of our three-day symposium at Johns Hopkins
University earlier this month, I asked the attendees to describe their
experience in just one word. Here’s a representative sampling of what we heard:
“Exciting.” “Energizing.” “Thought-provoking” (is that one word?). “Insightful.”
And my personal favorite: “Inspiring.”</span><br>
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<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2014/06/our-9th-annual-symposium-reflections-on.html#more">Read more »</a>Daniel Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13523462350039322369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-65941965233297129512014-05-06T09:44:00.002-07:002014-05-06T09:50:30.327-07:00Health Datapalooza: A Call to Improve Care Through Open Health Data<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Great strides have been made in the public availability and
use of health data, but we still have a long way to go in our efforts to
improve health care in the United States. At the center of the efforts of the <a href="http://www.healthdataconsortium.org/">Health Data Consortium</a> is the
need to advance patient care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
essential that we continue innovating new ways to leverage and promote the use
of health data to empower patients in their health care decision making and, in
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<a href="http://stewardschange.blogspot.com/2014/05/health-datapalooza-call-to-improve-care.html#more">Read more »</a>Stewards of Changehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331913167996190607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454849173664178101.post-40614668060817430712014-02-17T09:44:00.005-08:002014-05-01T12:28:31.374-07:00Sustaining and Measuring Community Health in California – and Linking to the Human Services<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Communities play a major role in
determining and sustaining the health, fitness, and, ultimately, the longevity
and quality of life of their residents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many studies indicate that community conditions and amenities impact the
personal choices of residents in the areas of diet and exercise, disease
treatment and management, and in engagement in behaviors that can be harmful to
health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Often referred to as the physical
or environmental determinants of health, such community attributes are the
focus of exciting initiatives in states and localities across the country. Moreover,
the burgeoning fields of open health data and health data analytics offer great
promise in enabling state and local policymakers to track key community-wide health
metrics and monitor the changing measures of health among wider population
groups. These initiatives and indicators -- and the enabling technologies -- will
be the focus of several events in which Stewards of Change Institute will be
involved in 2014. </span><br>
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In 2006, the Bureau of
Justice Statistics reported that “At
midyear 2005 more than half of all prison and jail inmates had a mental health
problem, including 705,600 inmates in State prisons, 78,800 in Federal prisons,
and 479,900 in local jails.These estimates represented 56% of State prisoners,
45% of Federal prisoners, and 64% of jail inmates.” <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The incidence of serious mental illnesses is two to four times
higher among prisoners than it is in the general population. In a study of more than 20,000 adults
entering five local jails, researchers documented serious mental illnesses in
14.5 percent of the men and 31 percent of the women, which taken together,
comprises 16.9 percent of those studied — rates in excess of three to six times
those found in the general population.</span><sup><span style="color: #00716f; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://csgjusticecenter.org/nrrc/facts-and-trends/#foot_10">10</a></span></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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