Overview
- Is the sole scholarly treatise on the interface of public health and public policy with incarcerated people
- Updates the first edition and adds discussion of relevant topics, with authorship of more than 60 contributors drawn from public health, correctional health, civil rights law, and sociology
- Examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population and analyzes the considerable impact on public health as prisoners are released
- Makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they re-enter, with authors offering affirmative recommendations toward that evolutionary step
- Identifies the most compelling health problems behind bars (including communicable disease, mental illness, addiction, and suicide), pinpoints systemic barriers to care, and explains how correctional medicine can shift from emergency or crisis care to primary care and prevention
- Outlines strategies that link community health resources to correctional facilities so that prisoners can transition to the community without unnecessarily taxing public resources or falling through the cracks
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Impact of Law and Public Policy on Correctional Populations
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Communicable Disease
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Primary and Secondary Prevention
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Keywords
- Correctional health care
- Crime and criminal justice
- HIV prevention
- Health promotion
- International Public Health
- Law and health
- Prevention and Control
- Prisoner health
- Prisons and health
- Public policy
- prison and jail health care
- morbidity in prisons and jails
- re-entry and community reintegration
- opiate substitution in prisons and jails
- female prisoner's health
- inmate suicide
- communicable disease in prison
- prisoner litigation
- medicalization of execution
- aging inmates
About this book
Keeping in mind that the United States of America leads the world in the percentage of its population that is incarcerated, the book grapples with whether crime in our communities is diminished by incarcerating more and more people and whether health care behind bars could improve the health status of our communities. Special concerns arise when there are prisoners with physical or mental disabilities, who have spent long periods in segregation, and others who are simply growing old.
New to the second edition are chapters on correctional nursing, sanitation to prevent intramural transmission, transitions from prisons to communities, the European experience, and root cause analysis for quality improvement, as well as revisions/updates to more than half of the chapters from the first edition that published in 2007.
Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, 2nd Edition, should be of immediate interest to correctional health practitioners and correctional administrators. The text also is essential reading for civil rights attorneys, journalists, scholars whose work is at the interface of criminal justice and public health, and students of criminal justice, public health, community health, healthcare administration, health policy, civil rights law, and sociology.
"In 2007, when Robert Greifinger first compiled a trove of information about the distressing intersection of public health and incarceration, it was, he says, like a textbook for a class that didn't exist. Since then the physical and mental health care crisis in our prisons and jails has aroused a national sense of urgency, and this extensively updated collection of solutions-based essays could not be more timely. It is an invaluable resource for policy-makers, educators, reform activists – and journalists".
– Bill Keller, Founding Editor, The Marshall Project, New York, NY, USA
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Robert B. Greifinger, MD is a healthcare policy and quality management consultant. His work focuses on design, management, and quality improvement in correctional healthcare systems. He has extensive experience in the development and management of complex community and institutional healthcare programs, and strengths in the bridging of clinical and public policy interests.
Dr. Greifinger has published extensively in the area of correctional health care. He has been a frequent speaker on public policy, communicable disease control and quality management in corrections. Dr. Greifinger was the principal investigator for the Report to Congress on Seizing Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care, published in 2002. He was Co-Editor of the International Journal of Prisoner Health from 2010 - 2016. Dr. Greifinger is the editor of Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities (1st Edition, 2007; 2nd Edition, 2022), Springer, New York. He currently serves as the Federal Court-appointed medical monitor for the jails in Miami, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Health Behind Bars
Book Subtitle: From Prisons to Communities
Editors: Robert B. Greifinger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1807-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-0716-1806-6Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-0716-1809-7Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0716-1807-3Published: 25 October 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 520
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Human Rights