Justice Health Libraries
Project Summary
All too often, academic research gets published in competitive, peer-reviewed journals that are well regarded yet largely unknown to the general population. Lloyd's Justice Health Libraries (JHL), which incorporate rigorous methodologies, synthesize all studies on a certain health condition, a certain demographic characteristic, or a certain justice setting, and provide users with searchable databases of available literature on that topic. For example, users may search for all studies on tuberculosis in justice settings, all studies that examine race issues in justice settings, all studies that examine healthcare in community based correctional settings, and any combination of those factors. If someone wanted to know the scope of research on tuberculosis among African American boys in prison, our databases allow for that search. Even more, our databases interact with a mapping program created by our Chief Technical Officer, Jack Chirieleison, which provide users the ability to search interactive research databases.
The Justice Health Libraries are sponsored in part through the Agency on Healthcare Research Quality.
Click here to access a working demonstration of the mapping program.
Displays your search results geographically on an interactive map. Maps are color coded, and the darker the color, the more references for that area. Hold your mouse over a colored area to display the number of references found. Click the area to view detail for that location. Map levels available for searches are: worldwide, region (usually continent), country and, in some cases, locality.
Displays detail for a specific reference.
Exports the records currently being viewed as an .xls Excel-formatted spreadsheet. You will be prompted to save the file, and detailed suggestions for ensuring accuracy in language translation can be found here.
Returns to the previous map.
Returns you to the main search page, where you can modify your search criteria. The criteria from your most recent search are saved by default. (Your browser must be enabled to accept cookies for this feature to work.)