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Health in Prisons: A WHO Guide to the Essentials in Prison Health
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Nov. 21, 2007
ANNOTATION: This guide “outlines some of the steps prison systems should take to reduce the public health risks from compulsory detention in often unhealthy situations, to care for prisoners in need and to promote the health of prisoners and staff” (p. i). Chapters contained in this publication are: “Introduction”; “Standards in Prison Health: The Prisoner as a Patient” by Andrew Coyle; “Protecting and Promoting Health in Prisons: A Settings Approach” by Paul Hayton; “Primary Health Care in Prisons” by Andrew Fraser; “Prison-Specific Ethical and Clinical Problems” by Jean-Pierre Restellini; “Communicable Diseases” by Dumitru Laticevschi; “HIV Infection and Human Rights in Prisons” by Rick Lines; “Tuberculosis Control in Prisons” by Jaap Veen; “Drug Use and Drug Services in Prisons” by Heino Stover and Caren Weilandt; “Substitution Treatment in Prisons” by Andrej Kastelic; “Mental Health in Prisons” by Eric Blaauw and Hjalmar J.C. van Marle; “Dental Health in Prisons” by Amit Bose and Tony Jenner; “Special Health Requirements for Female Prisoners” by Jan Palmer; and “Promoting Health and Managing Stress Among Prison Employees” by Heiner Bogemann.