TY - BOOK ID - 213591 TI - Public Health Behind Bars : From Prisons to Communities PY - 2007 SN - 1281115592 9786611115593 0387716955 0387716947 1441924515 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Prisoners KW - Medical policy KW - Communicable diseases KW - Medical care KW - Prevention. KW - Contagion and contagious diseases KW - Contagious diseases KW - Infectious diseases KW - Microbial diseases in human beings KW - Zymotic diseases KW - Diseases KW - Infection KW - Epidemics KW - Medicine. KW - Criminology. KW - Law KW - Practice of medicine. KW - Public Health. KW - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. KW - Criminology and Criminal Justice, general. KW - Law and Psychology. KW - Health Administration. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Medical practice KW - Practice of medicine KW - Physician practice acquisitions KW - Juridical psychology KW - Juristic psychology KW - Legal psychology KW - Psychology, Juridical KW - Psychology, Juristic KW - Psychology, Legal KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Therapeutic jurisprudence KW - Crime KW - Social sciences KW - Criminals KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Psychology KW - Study and teaching KW - Health Workforce KW - Public health. KW - Health promotion. KW - Psychology. KW - Health administration. KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Mental philosophy KW - Mind KW - Science, Mental KW - Philosophy KW - Soul KW - Mental health KW - Health promotion programs KW - Health promotion services KW - Promotion of health KW - Wellness programs KW - Preventive health services KW - Health education KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:213591 AB - 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: Can transmission of HIV, tuberculosis, and other communicable diseases be reduced and prevented among prisoners? How can correctional facilities treat addiction more effectively? What can be done to improve diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders? Can correctional care benefit from quality management and performance measurement? How can care be coordinated between correctional and community health care providers? What are the health risks to communities if action is not taken? 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. ER -