Toward a Gender‐Responsive Restorative Correctional Health Care Model

Infectious and chronic diseases are disproportionately greater among detained women than among women in the population at large. The overall punitive, male‐based, one‐size‐fits‐all approach to health care and the variant overall health care standards across correctional systems call for a new model of correctional health care. The assumptions, constructs, strategies, and future research implications of the restorative health care model are described.