Health and health care in the nation's prisons : issues, challenges, and policies / Melvin Delgado and Denise Humm-Delgado.

By:

Delgado, Melvin

Contributor(s):

Humm-Delgado, Denise

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780742563469
0742563464
1282496352
9781282496354

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health and health care in the nation's prisons.DDC classification:

365/.6670973 22

LOC classification:

HV8843 .D448 2008eb

NLM classification:

WA 300

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Contents:

Demographics -- Social inequalities -- Political and ethical considerations -- High-profile health needs -- Low-profile health care needs -- Death & dying -- Approaches and service delivery models -- Expensive treatments to health care is a privilege or a right?

Summary: The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases, prisons struggle to adequately address health care needs in a financially feasible way. Many prisoners enter the system with medical problems that have gone unmet, and the toxic environments inside the prisons further compromise their health, causing serious problems both within the prisons themselves and in society as a whole when the prisoners are released. Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons presents.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases, prisons struggle to adequately address health care needs in a financially feasible way. Many prisoners enter the system with medical problems that have gone unmet, and the toxic environments inside the prisons further compromise their health, causing serious problems both within the prisons themselves and in society as a whole when the prisoners are released. Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons presents.

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