Public Health Behind Bars
From Prisons to Communities
| Auflage | 2/E 2021 |
| Seiten | 685 pp., 60 illus., 60 tab. |
| Verlag | Springer |
| ISBN | 9781071618066 |
| Artikel-Nr. | 569220 |
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Produktbeschreibung
Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. This book makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they reenter.
Is the sole scholarly treatise on the interface of public health and public policy with incarcerated people
Updates the first edition and adds discussion of relevant topics, with authorship of more than 60 contributors drawn from public health, correctional health, civil rights law, and sociology
Examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population and analyzes the considerable impact on public health as prisoners are released
Makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they re-enter, with authors offering affirmative recommendations toward that evolutionary step
Identifies the most compelling health problems behind bars (including communicable disease, 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
Outlines strategies 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
Is the sole scholarly treatise on the interface of public health and public policy with incarcerated people
Updates the first edition and adds discussion of relevant topics, with authorship of more than 60 contributors drawn from public health, correctional health, civil rights law, and sociology
Examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population and analyzes the considerable impact on public health as prisoners are released
Makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they re-enter, with authors offering affirmative recommendations toward that evolutionary step
Identifies the most compelling health problems behind bars (including communicable disease, 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
Outlines strategies 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