Public health behind bars : from prisons to communities / Robert B. Greifinger, editor ; foreword by David Satcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greifinger, Robert B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Medical care--United States.

Prisoners.

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Communicable diseases--United States--Prevention.

Communicable diseases.

Prisons--organization & administration.

Communicable Disease Control--organization & administration.

Health Policy.

Communicable diseases--Prevention.

Prisoners--Medical care.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Prisoners.

Prisons--organization & administration.

Communicable Disease Control--organization & administration.

Health Policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2022]

System Details:

text file

PDF

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Public health behind bars.

ISBN:

9781071618073

1071618075

OCLC:

1281250795

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.