Confined to ignorance: The absence of prisoner information from nationally representative health data sets

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-166

  Ahalt, Cyrus ^a,d   Binswanger, Ingrid A ^b   Steinman, Michael ^a,d   Tulsky, Jacqueline ^c   Williams, Brie A ^a,c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data; Disparities; Health; Incarceration; Prisoner

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRISONER;

CRIMINAL LAW; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PRISONERS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856761871     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1858-7     Document Type: Article

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