Kouyoumdjian Fiona G, McIsaac Kathryn E, Foran Jessica E, Matheson Flora I
Centre for Urban Health Solutions (Kouyoumdjian, Matheson), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Research Services (McIsaac), Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS; Department of Political Science (Foran) and Department of Family Medicine (Kouyoumdjian), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
CMAJ Open. 2017 Jan 10;5(1):E14-E18. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20160064. eCollection 2017 Jan-Mar.
Health research provides a means to define health status and to identify ways to improve health. Our objective was to define the proportion of grants and funding from the Government of Canada's health research investment agency, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), that was awarded for prison health research, and to describe the characteristics of funded grants.
In this descriptive study, we defined prison health research as research on the health and health care of people in prisons and at the time of their release. We searched the CIHR Funding Decisions Database by subject and by investigator name for funded grants for prison health research in Canada in all competitions between 2010 and 2014. We calculated the proportion of grants and funding awarded for prison health research, and described the characteristics of funded grants.
During the 5-year study period, 21 grants were awarded that included a focus on prison health research, for a total of $2 289 948. Six of these grants were operating grants and 6 supported graduate or fellowship training. In total, 0.13% of all grants and 0.05% of all funding was for prison health research.
A relatively small proportion of CIHR grants and funding were awarded for prison health research between 2010 and 2014. If prison health is a priority for Canada, strategic initiatives that include funding opportunities could be developed to support prison health research in Canada.
健康研究提供了一种界定健康状况以及确定改善健康方法的途径。我们的目标是确定加拿大政府健康研究投资机构——加拿大卫生研究院（CIHR）授予监狱健康研究的拨款和资金比例，并描述获得资助拨款的特征。
在这项描述性研究中，我们将监狱健康研究定义为针对监狱中的人群及其释放时的健康与医疗保健的研究。我们通过主题和研究者姓名在CIHR资助决策数据库中搜索2010年至2014年间加拿大所有竞赛中获得资助的监狱健康研究拨款。我们计算了授予监狱健康研究的拨款和资金比例，并描述了获得资助拨款的特征。
在为期5年的研究期间，共授予了21项拨款，这些拨款都聚焦于监狱健康研究，总计2289948加元。其中6项为运营拨款，6项支持研究生或奖学金培训。总体而言，所有拨款的0.13%以及所有资金的0.05%用于监狱健康研究。
2010年至2014年间，CIHR授予监狱健康研究的拨款和资金比例相对较小。如果监狱健康是加拿大的一个优先事项，那么可以制定包括资助机会在内的战略举措来支持加拿大的监狱健康研究。
