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Author manuscript; available in PMC 2026 January 06. |\n| --- | --- |\n\nPublished in final edited form as:  \nProc Annu Hawaii Int Conf Syst Sci. 2024 ; 2024: 3676–3685. doi:10.24251/hicss.2024.443 .  \nDesign of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States  \nTerika McCall,  \nYale School of Public Health  \nAmanda Levi,  \nYale School of Public Health  \nMary L Peng,  \nHarvard Medical School  \nKristal Zhou,  \nYale School of Public Health  \nMeera Swaminath,  \nYale School of Public Health  \nVignesh Harikrishnan, Yale School of Public Health  \nT Elizabeth Workman,  \nGeorge Washington University  \nHadi Fooladi,  \nChildren’s National Health System  \nMonya Saunders,  \nYale School of Medicine  \nMarisol Foumakoye, Yale School of Medicine  \nMeredith Campbell Britton, Yale School of Medicine  \nSarah Teng, Yale University  \nQing Zeng-Treitler,  \nGeorge Washington University  \nYing Yin,  \nGeorge Washington University Emily A Wang,  \n(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) [terika.mccall@yale.edu](terika.mccall@yale.edu) .  \nAuthor Manuscr ipt Author Manuscr ipt Author Manuscr ipt Author Manuscript  \nMcCall et al. Page 2  \nYale School of Medicine  \nLisa B Puglisi,  \nYale School of Medicine  \nShira Shavit,  \nUniversity of California San Francisco  \nCynthia A Brandt,  \nYale School of Medicine  \nKaren H Wang  \nYale School of Medicine  \nAbstract  \nIndividuals with a history of incarceration face many barriers to accessing resources to meet their basic needs when returning to community settings. Digital health tools have potential to reduce health inequities by facilitating connections to health and social services, and peer support. This study aimed to employ a user-centered design approach to create a digital Personal Health Library (PerHL) for previously incarcerated individuals. The design process included in-depth interviews followed by rapid analysis, interpretation sessions, and user experience/user interface (UX/UI) design of a high-fidelity prototype. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals with a history of incarceration (n=20) to understand their experience rejoining their communities.  \nFindings highlight the need for an app that allows users to easily access resources for employment, housing, healthcare and medical needs, formal and informal support, and legal counsel.  \nKeywords  \ncarceral settings; mHealth; mobile applications; digital health; user-centered design  \n1. Introduction  \nIn the United States (US), approximately 610,000 people are released from correctional facilities every year (Sawyer, 2022), the majority of which consists of racial and ethnic minoritized individuals from lower-income households (Blankenship et al., 2018) .  \nStudies have shown that individuals with a history of incarceration are at higher risk of developing chronic health conditions such as lung cancer, cervical cancer, and hypertension (Binswanger et al., 2009; Puglisi et al., 2020) .  \nIncarceration further contributes to a reduced degree of self-efficacy in individual health management due to the highly regulated prison environment that affords incarcerated people little decision-making opportunity or control over health behaviors, such as diet, exercise, and medication management (Loeb et al., 2011) . Within the carceral setting, some people are newly diagnosed with chronic health conditions and have never had the opportunity to learn how to manage these conditions while in the community--making appointments, obtaining and refilling prescriptions. Upon returning to the community, they are at high risk for poor health outcomes – higher rates of hospitalization and mortality (Binswanger et al., 2007;  \nProc Annu Hawaii Int Conf Syst Sci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2026 January 06.  \nAuthor Manuscr ipt Author Manuscr ipt Author Manuscr ipt Author Man","cbCaiscGyuIx5gvo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiscGyuIx5gvo","pdf",885993,18,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the study address for people returning from incarceration?\",\"answer\":\"The study addresses barriers to accessing resources for basic needs when rejoining community life after incarceration. 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