Health And Health Promotion In Prisons

Author : Michael W. Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415523523

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Health and Health Promotion in Prisons by Michael W. Ross Pdf

The impact of the United Nations "Healthy Prisons" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations. This invaluable book discusses the many health and medical issues that arise or are introduced into prisons from the perspective of both inmates and prison staff. Health and Health Promotion in Prison places key issues in prison healthcare into a historical perspective and investigates contemporary policy drivers. It then addresses the significant legal issues relating to health in prison settings and the human rights implications and questions that arise. The book presents a useful framework for health education in prison and a model for introducing structural, policy and health-related changes based on the UN Health in Prisons model, and also includes a special chapter on mental health issues. Providing a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview of health promotion issues in correctional environments, this is an essential reference for all those involved in prison healthcare.

Author : Bernice S. Elger,Catherine Ritter,Heino Stöver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401775588

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Emerging Issues in Prison Health by Bernice S. Elger,Catherine Ritter,Heino Stöver Pdf

This volume recognizes and addresses the health care issues of prisoners, to establish best practices and to learn about approaches to these challenges from around the world. It presents new evidence on several emerging and classical prison health issues. The first goal of this volume is to address emerging issues related to health in prison. Second, it presents the most recent research-based evidence and translates it to the practice. The third goal, is that it allows for sufficient diversity while also incorporating updates of some important already recognized prison health. The volume discusses prisons and the life and well-being of prisoners and staff, after growing problems as drug misuse (incl. tobacco smoking), infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, STIs and TB), psychiatric problems, inadequate and unhealthy living conditions (incl. nutrition), overcrowding of prisons. These are addressed adequately in order to meet the international requirements of equivalence of health care. The scope of this volume is at the same type specific and diverse enough to cover the interests of a large audience that includes many types of practitioners involved in health-related issues in the field of prison health care, such as psychologists, nurses and prison administration officers responsible for health care, legal professionals and social workers.

Author : A. Gatherer,World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289072809

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Health in Prisons by A. Gatherer,World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe Pdf

Based on the experience of many countries in the WHO European Region and the advice of experts, this guide outlines some of the steps prison systems should take to reduce the public health risks from compulsory detention in often unhealthy situations, to care for prisoners in need and to promote the health of prisoners and prison staff. This requires that everyone working in prisons understand how imprisonment affects health, what prisoners' health needs are, and how evidence-based health services can be provided for everyone needing treatment, care and prevention in prison. Other essential elements are being aware of and accepting internationally recommended standards for prison health; providing professional care with the same adherence to professional ethics as in other health services; and, while seeing individual needs as the central feature of the care provided, promoting a whole-prison approach to care and promoting the health and well-being of people in custody.

Author : Robert Greifinger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387716954

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Public Health Behind Bars by Robert Greifinger Pdf

Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. This book makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they reenter.

Author : Matthew Maycock,Rosie Meek,James Woodall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030464011

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Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research by Matthew Maycock,Rosie Meek,James Woodall Pdf

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings. Prison contexts often have profound implications for the health of the people who live and work within them. Despite these settings often housing people from extremely disadvantaged and deprived communities, many with multiple and complex health needs, health research is generally neglected within both criminology and medical sociology. Through the fourteen chapters of this book, a range of issues emerge that the authors of each contribution reflect upon. The ethical concerns that emerge as a consequence of undertaking prison health research are not ignored, indeed these lie at the heart of this book and resonate across all the chapters. Foregrounding these issues necessarily forms a significant focus of this introductory chapter. Alongside explicitly considering emerging ethical issues, our contributing authors also have considered diverse aspects of innovation in research methodologies within the context of prison health research. Many of the chapters are innovative through the methodologies that were used, often adapting and utilising research methods rarely used within prison settings. The book brings together chapters from students, scholars, practitioners and service users from a range of disciplines (including medical sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, psychology and public health).

Author : Angela Scriven,Margaret Hodgins
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781446291474

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Health Promotion Settings by Angela Scriven,Margaret Hodgins Pdf

Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighbourhood, cities and prisons. Frameworks and processes that are actively shaping health promotion in settings in the 21st Century are documented and the ideas and research covered will provide a vital set of indicators for those who promote health in settings. Combining theory with practical examples and case studies, the authors show how a settings approach can work in practice, drawing on a range of local, national and international initiatives and coordinated projects. Health Promotion Settings provides a rich source of ideas and case examples which highlight the challenges for promoting health in a range of contexts. Special attention is given to the workplace as both a priority area for health promotion and a key determinant of health. Written by a highly experienced team of health promotion and public health professionals, academics and researchers, this book is essential reading for both students and practitioners working towards the improvement of health using a settings approach. Online Resources are provided.

Author : Alberto Urrutia-Moldes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000578980

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Health and Well-Being in Prison Design by Alberto Urrutia-Moldes Pdf

This book establishes a new framework for prison design to promote the health and well-being of all prison users. Based on international research in Norway, Finland, the USA, and Chile, and drawing on the expertise of key international advisors, this book uniquely reveals the perspectives of both designers and prison authorities concerning well-being in prison architecture. It is the first book to compare perspectives between prison models while providing essential guidance for the design of prison environments to promote the rehabilitation of inmates and their desistance from crime. The promotion of health and well-being of people in prison is vital to enable rehabilitation. Traditional prison architecture severely weakens both rehabilitation efforts and opportunities for desistance. Only a handful of prison systems in the world have shown significant changes in their prison designs. Underpinned by Critical Realism and the PERMA theory of well-being, this book reveals significant new insights to inform prison design. The author presents international case study research with interviews with prison authorities and designers from four countries and the three different prison models, as well as key international United Nations advisors. For the first time the visions of prison designers are contrasted with those of prison authorities, bringing a new synthesised understanding of the differences and similarities in their approach to the health and well-being of both inmates and staff from which to generate a new framework for design considerations. This book illuminates new directions for prison design and is essential reading for policymakers, academics, and students involved in the study and development of criminology, corrections, and penology. It is also an indispensable source of up-to-date knowledge for prison authorities, public health officials, architects, and designers involved in the design of prisons and any other type of coercive detention facilities.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309493666

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The Effects of Incarceration and Reentry on Community Health and Well-Being by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity Pdf

The high rate of incarceration in the United States contributes significantly to the nation's health inequities, extending beyond those who are imprisoned to families, communities, and the entire society. Since the 1970s, there has been a seven-fold increase in incarceration. This increase and the effects of the post-incarceration reentry disproportionately affect low-income families and communities of color. It is critical to examine the criminal justice system through a new lens and explore opportunities for meaningful improvements that will promote health equity in the United States. The National Academies convened a workshop on June 6, 2018 to investigate the connection between incarceration and health inequities to better understand the distributive impact of incarceration on low-income families and communities of color. Topics of discussion focused on the experience of incarceration and reentry, mass incarceration as a public health issue, women's health in jails and prisons, the effects of reentry on the individual and the community, and promising practices and models for reentry. The programs and models that are described in this publication are all Philadelphia-based because Philadelphia has one of the highest rates of incarceration of any major American city. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop.

Author : Doh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0752116967

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Mental Health Promotion and People in Prisons Factsheet by Doh Pdf

Author : Hda,Health Education Authority, London (GB)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0752117696

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Nhpis by Hda,Health Education Authority, London (GB) Pdf

Author : Suzanne Hetzel Campbell
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781284197167

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Lactation: A Foundational Strategy for Health Promotion by Suzanne Hetzel Campbell Pdf

Healthcare professionals, including lactation consultants and nurses, have the unique challenge of educating the community and their patients on healthy breastfeeding and the benefits of lactation. However, breastfeeding is not efficiently represented in texts specific to health promotion. With her 30 years’ experience educating undergraduate and graduate nursing students and interprofessional healthcare providers on maternal–infant health and lactation, Suzanne Hetzel Campbell is breaking that tradition. Lactation: A Foundational Strategy for Health Promotion uses evidence-based research and a person-centered care framework to empower healthcare practitioners to advocate for and support families in their breastfeeding ventures.

Author : Dianne Hatton,Anastasia Fisher
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781498791366

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Women Prisoners and Health Justice by Dianne Hatton,Anastasia Fisher Pdf

Incarceration severely affects the health and wellbeing of women both during their incarceration and following release, further complicating the health disparities they already experience as a consequence of gender, race and social class. The scope of this international problem remains largely hidden from health professionals and policy makers. This book brings the issues into the light, with contributions from leading advocates, criminologists, feminists, nurses, physicians, public health professionals, social workers, sociologists and former prisoners.

Author : Peter MacDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : 9052533679

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Risk Reduction for Drug Users in Prisons by Peter MacDermott Pdf

Author : Rosie Meek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135081836

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Sport in Prison by Rosie Meek Pdf

Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up in a cycle of offending and imprisonment, by offering an alternative means of excitement and risk taking to that gained through engaging in offending behaviour, or by providing an alternative social network and access to positive role models. This is the first book to explore the role of sport in prisons and its subsequent impact on rehabilitation and behavioural change. The book draws on research literature on the beneficial role of sport in community settings and on prison cultures and regimes, across disciplines including criminology, psychology, sociology and sport studies, as well as original qualitative and quantitative data gathered from research in prisons. It unpacks the meanings that prisoners and staff attach to sport participation and interventions in order to understand how to promote behavioural change through sport most effectively, while identifying and tackling the key emerging issues and challenges. Sport in Prison is essential reading for any advanced student, researcher, policy-maker or professional working in the criminal justice system with an interest in prisons, offending behaviour, rehabilitation, sport development, or the wider social significance of sport.

Author : Ron H. Aday
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015056452256

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Aging Prisoners by Ron H. Aday Pdf

The number of elderly prisoners is growing. This book provides a review and analysis of the issues that this population presents to correctional systems, covering the medical, gerontological, psychological and social aspects of aging in place in prison. Other topics covered inlcude: -- the current state of U.S. prisons, crime patterns among the elderly, problems associated with long-term inmates, the treatment of older women prisoners, and the possibility of an elderly justice system.