Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to CommunitiesRobert Greifinger Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M10 4 - 576 pages Projecting correctional facility-based health care into the community arena, Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the considerable impact on public health as prisoners are released. More than forty practitioners, researchers, and scholars in correctional health, mental health, law, and public policy make a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they reenter. These authors offer affirmative recommendations toward that evolutionary step. Chapter authors identify the most compelling health problems behind bars (including communicable disease, mental illness, addiction, and suicide), pinpoint systemic barriers to care, and explain how correctional medicine can shift from emergency or crisis care to primary care and prevention. In addition, strategies are outlined that link community health resources to correctional facilities so that prisoners can transition to the community without unnecessarily taxing public resources or falling through the cracks. Between the authors’ research findings and practical suggestions, readers will find realistic answers to these and similar questions:
Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities is a challenge of immediate interest to readers in correctional health and medicine, public and community health, health care administration and policy, and civil rights. |
Contents
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Litigating for Better Medical Care | 25 |
Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons | 42 |
Challenges of Prison and Reentry for the Aging Population | 56 |
Models of Care and Harm | 73 |
Lethal Injection in the United States 888 | 88 |
Communicable Disease | 101 |
Prevention of Viral Hepatitis | 127 |
Blinders to Comprehensive Psychiatric Diagnosis | 292 |
Opportunities | 304 |
Female Prisoners and the Case for GenderSpecific Treatment | 320 |
Presenting the Evidence | 333 |
Tertiary Prevention | 345 |
Treatment and Reentry Approaches for Offenders with Cooccurring | 368 |
Thinking Forward to ReentryReducing Barriers | 413 |
Reentry Experiences of Men with Health Problems | 434 |
Behavioral Interventions in Correctional Settings | 156 |
Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities | 174 |
Controlling Chlamydia Gonorrhea and Syphilis Through Targeted Screening | 212 |
Primary and Secondary Prevention | 227 |
Promoting an Evidencebased Approach to Screening | 249 |
Written Health Informational Needs for Reentry | 265 |
Reducing Inmate Suicides Through the Mortality Review Process | 280 |