Healthcare in prisons: Promoting health in prison: Prisons contain some of society's most disadvantaged people. In the last of his series Stephen Ginn looks at how prison provides opportunities to improve their health and asks whether earlier intervention could keep them out of prison in the first place

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7910, 2013, Pages

  Ginn, Stephen ^a  

^a British Medical Journal Technology Assessment Group   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION; CROWDING; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG MISUSE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED KINGDOM; ADDICTION; INFECTION;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFECTION; PRISONS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84878560133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f2216     Document Type: Article

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