Public health and the epidemic of incarceration

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 325-339

  Dumont, Dora M ^a   Brockmann, Brad ^a   Dickman, Samuel ^b   Alexander, Nicole ^c   Rich, Josiah D ^a,c,d  

^a Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Medical training; Prisons; Underserved communities; War on drugs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCARCERATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; OFFENDER; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW;

HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PRISONERS; PRISONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84861387223     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124614     Document Type: Review

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