Prison health and public health responses at a regional prison in Western Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 549-553

  Gilles, Marisa ^a,d   Swingler, Elysia ^b   Craven, Corryn ^c   Larson, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical audit; Human rights; Indigenous population; Prisons; Public health practice; Rural health

Indexed keywords

FLUVAX; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIGENT; INFLUENZA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL AUDIT; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; POPULATION GROUPS; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RISK FACTORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 58149305871     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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