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HIV prevalence in prisons around the world
• AIDS/HIV • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The number of prisoners living with HIV varies between countries. America has the highest prison population in the world, around 1.5 percent of whom…
Prison Health Care Conclusion
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
A high incarceration rate comes with both an economic and social price. Housing prisoners is expensive regardless of whether the public or private sector…
How should prison health care be provided and funder?
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The delivery of prison health care ranges from that delivered by prison service employees to care delivered by on-site nurses or doctors. The differences…
Substance Abuse in prisoners
• Prison Health Care • • Cocaine Addiction • Sep 09 11
The United States now incarcerates people at a rate nearly five times the world average primarily because of drug offenses. More than two-thirds of…
Mental Health of Prisoners
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Mental health problems are more prevalent among prisoners than the general population both in the United States and in other countries.[21] Whether or not…
HIV/AIDS in prisons
• AIDS/HIV • • Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
HIV/AIDS in state and federal prisoners was more than 2.5 times higher than that in the U.S. population. Approximately 46 per 10,000 prison inmates…
Sexual Victimization
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Despite professed zero tolerance for sexual victimization in prison, such activity continues. Public awareness of prison rape and sexual assault (male and female) is…
Medical problems of prisoners
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
In the United States, the Bureau of Justice surveys inmates in state and federal correctional facilities to quantify the incidence and prevalence of medical…
U.S. prison statistics
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
In the United States in 2008, 739 per 100,000 population were either serving time, awaiting trial, or otherwise detained. Local jails held 785,556 persons…
The Purpose of prisons
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
Prisons have long been the place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. Indeed, incarcerating individuals has a long, sordid history.As long…
Prison Health Care
• Prison Health Care • Sep 09 11
The provision of health care in prisons has mushroomed into a large, often ignored, global issue of concern. While prisoners are secured behind high…