Public health behind bars : from prisons to communities / Robert B. Greifinger, editor ; foreword by David Satcher.
Greifinger, Robert B., editor.
2022
HV8833 .P83 2021
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Title Public health behind bars : from prisons to communities / Robert B. Greifinger, editor ; foreword by David Satcher.
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9781071618073 (electronic bk.)
1071618075 (electronic bk.)
9781071618066
1071618067
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1807-3
Published New York : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-1-0716-1807-3 doi
Call Number HV8833 .P83 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 365/.6670973
Summary This contributed volume takes a comprehensive look at factors that impact correctional health care and the related implications for public health and public health policy. It identifies the most compelling health problems behind bars (including communicable and chronic diseases, mental illness, addiction, and suicide), pinpoints systemic barriers to care, and explains how correctional medicine can shift from emergency or crisis care to primary care and prevention. It also discusses the impact of public policy on correctional populations and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. In this new edition, the multidisciplinary authorship continues to make a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they re-enter. Keeping in mind that the United States of America leads the world in the percentage of its population that is incarcerated, the book grapples with whether crime in our communities is diminished by incarcerating more and more people and whether health care behind bars could improve the health status of our communities. Special concerns arise when there are prisoners with physical or mental disabilities, who have spent long periods in segregation, and others who are simply growing old. New to the second edition are chapters on correctional nursing, sanitation to prevent intramural transmission, transitions from prisons to communities, the European experience, and root cause analysis for quality improvement, as well as revisions/updates to more than half of the chapters from the first edition that published in 2007. Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, 2nd Edition, should be of immediate interest to correctional health practitioners and correctional administrators. The text also is essential reading for civil rights attorneys, journalists, scholars whose work is at the interface of criminal justice and public health, and students of criminal justice, public health, community health, healthcare administration, health policy, civil rights law, and sociology. "In 2007, when Robert Greifinger first compiled a trove of information about the distressing intersection of public health and incarceration, it was, he says, like a textbook for a class that didn't exist. Since then the physical and mental health care crisis in our prisons and jails has aroused a national sense of urgency, and this extensively updated collection of solutions-based essays could not be more timely. It is an invaluable resource for policy-makers, educators, reform activists and journalists". Bill Keller, Founding Editor, The Marshall Project, New York, NY, USA
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Impact of Law and Public Policy on Correctional Populations
Thirty Years Since Estelle v. Gamble: Looking Forward, Not Wayward
Impact of Incarceration on Community Public Safety and Public Health
Litigating for Better Medical Care
Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons
Growing Older: Challenges of Prison and Reentry for the Aging Population
International Public Health and Corrections: Models of Care and Harm Minimization
The Medicalization of Execution: Lethal Injection in the United States
Communicable Disease
Prevention of Viral Hepatitis
HIV Prevention: Behavioral Interventions in Correctional Settings
Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities
Controlling Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis Through Targeted Screening and Treatment in Correctional Settings
Primary and Secondary Prevention
Health Promotion in Jails and Prisons: An Alternative Paradigm for Correctional Health Services
Screening for Public Purpose: Promoting an Evidence-based Approach to Screening of Inmates to Improve Public Health
Written Health Informational Needs for Reentry
Reducing Inmate Suicides Through the Mortality Review Process
Blinders to Comprehensive Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Correctional System
Juvenile Corrections and Public Health Collaborations: Opportunities for Improved Health Outcomes
Female Prisoners and the Case for Gender-Specific Treatment and Reentry Programs
Building the Case for Oral Health Care for Prisoners: Presenting the Evidence and Calling for Justice
Tertiary Prevention
Treatment of Mental Illness in Correctional Settings
Treatment and Reentry Approaches for Offenders with Co-occurring Disorders
Pharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse in Correctional Facilities: Prospects and Barriers to Expanding Access to Evidence-Based Therapy
Thinking Forward to ReentryReducing Barriers and Building Community Linkages
Health Research Behind Bars: A Brief Guide to Research in Jails and Prisons
Reentry Experiences of Men with Health Problems
Providing Transition and Outpatient Services to the Mentally Ill Released from Correctional Institutions
Sexual Predators: Diversion, Civil Commitment, Community Reintegration, Challenges, and Opportunities
Electronic Health Records Systems and Continuity of Care
Community Health and Public Health Collaborations
Improving the Care for HIV-Infected Prisoners: An Integrated Prison-Release Health Model.

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