Transitions clinic: Creating a community-based model of health care for recently released California prisoners

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-177

  Wang, Emily A ^a,b   Hong, Clemens S ^a,c   Samuels, Liz ^a   Shavit, Shira ^a,d   Sandersa, Ronald ^a   Kushel, Margot ^e  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; UNITED STATES; CASE MANAGEMENT; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRISONERS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 77950367321     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491012500205     Document Type: Article

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