Women’s healthcare needs and access across the incarceration pathway in Israel: a qualitative study

This study emphasizes the urgent need for a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and continuity-based approach to healthcare within carceral settings. Our findings support the need for integration of prison health services into the national health system and call for system-wide, cross-sectoral, and human rights-based policy frameworks that promote prevention, rehabilitation, and adequate mental and physical healthcare in prison. Integrating prison healthcare within the broader national health system is crucial for reducing health inequalities by improving continuity of care, transparency, and the effective sharing and reporting of health information.