Can There Be Acceptable Prison Health Care? Looking Back on the 1970s

Public Health Reports

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 89-93

  Reverby, Susan M ^a,b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mass incarceration and health care; prison health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JUSTICE; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; PRISONER;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PRISONERS; PRISONS;

EID: 85059103524     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0033354918805985     Document Type: Article

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