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Policy Recommendations: Improved Community Health Through Better Correctional Health Care

Publication year: 2002 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Recommendations, whose implementation is justified by scientific evidence, for improving health care offered in prisons and jails are presented. The nine recommendations along with recommended actions are: surveillance promotion; clinical guidelines; immunizations; Correctional Health Care Research and National Literature Database; ethical decision making; elimination of barriers to inmate health care; improvement of health care delivery; disease prevention; and pre-release planning. An additional seven recommendations for U.S. government agencies are also provided.
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