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Incarceration - Healthy People 2030 health.gov

(9 days ago) WebThe Bureau of Justice Statistics defines the incarcerated population as the population of inmates confined in a prison or a jail. 1 State and federal prisons house people sentenced to more than 1 year of incarceration. 2 Local jails hold people sentenced to less than 1 …

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-determinants-health/literature-summaries/incarceration

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Public Health Policy to End Mass Incarceration - The …

(1 days ago) WebThe abysmal state of U.S. public health and safety cannot be separated from the destructive effects of mass incarceration. Undoing these harms requires abolishing oppressive systems and constructin

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2208239

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Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of …

(3 days ago) WebSecond, public health oversight is not prevention. While APHA has had established standards for health services within prisons and jails since 1976,[99] a …

https://www.apha.org/Policies-and-Advocacy/Public-Health-Policy-Statements/Policy-Database/2022/01/07/Advancing-Public-Health-Interventions-to-Address-the-Harms-of-the-Carceral-System

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Mass Incarceration as a Public Health Issue - The Effects of

(5 days ago) WebTwo speakers at the workshop presented overviews of incarceration in the United States and its effects on health. In his keynote address, Jim Parsons, vice …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555719/

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Understanding Mass Incarceration as a Public Health Issue

(4 days ago) WebThe effect of mass incarceration on the health of marginalized communities is a systemic issue that leads to inequities and requires change through policy work, as …

https://onlinemph.unc.edu/blog/mass-incarceration-public-health/

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Incarceration and Public Health: Going Bold to Achieve Health Equity

(9 days ago) WebIn 2018, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published an in-depth report on how incarceration threatens health equity in America. A group of public health …

https://www.gih.org/views-from-the-field/incarceration-and-public-health-going-bold-to-achieve-health-equity/

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Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration

(4 days ago) WebINTRODUCTION. Mass incarceration is a pressing social problem with important implications for the fields of public health and medicine. For decades, the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10128126/

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Improving prisoner health for stronger public health

(3 days ago) WebPrison health systems remain a weak link in public health preparedness, racial and social justice, and human rights. Globally, 10·74 million people were in penal institutions as of 2018, either as pretrial detainees, on …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00361-5/fulltext

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A Multilevel Approach to Understanding Mass Incarceration and …

(7 days ago) WebFew national public health surveys ask about jail, prison, or arrest histories or include and retain sufficient numbers of formerly incarcerated people and their …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305432

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Promoting health beyond prison walls - The Lancet Public Health

(3 days ago) WebThe Global Prison Trends 2022 report, published on May 11, flags the continuing global failure to reduce prison populations. Governments have been frequently resorting to …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(22)00141-4/fulltext

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Correctional Health CDC

(Just Now) WebCorrectional health encompasses all aspects of health and well-being for adults and juveniles who are justice system*-involved, from their arrest, during detention or incarceration, and through the time they return to …

https://www.cdc.gov/correctionalhealth/default.htm

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Incarceration is a Public Health Issue - NIHCM

(9 days ago) WebAbout this Data Insights. The unmet health needs of incarcerated people contribute to a public health crisis that disproportionately impacts Black and Brown men …

https://nihcm.org/publications/incarceration-is-a-public-health-issue

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Health care for people who are incarcerated - Nature

(Just Now) WebThe interaction between incarceration and health is complex, especially in countries without universal health care. American journal of public health. 109, …

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-021-00288-9

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Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA

(3 days ago) WebThe USA is the world leader in incarceration, which disproportionately affects black populations. Nearly one in three black men will ever be imprisoned, and nearly half of …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30259-3/fulltext

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Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration - PMC

(3 days ago) WebAs a result, rates of physical and mental illnesses are far higher among prison and jail inmates than among the general public. We review the health profiles of the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329888/

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Incarceration: A Public Health Crisis - nihcm.org

(7 days ago) WebNearly 5.5 million people are on probation, in jail, in prison, or on parole in the United States at any one time. This population is disproportionately plagued by …

https://nihcm.org/publications/incarceration-a-public-health-crisis

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Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of …

(3 days ago) WebPublic health researchers and practitioners can play a key role in shifting away from these punitive paradigms toward preventive strategies that abolish the need …

https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2021/01/14/advancing-public-health-interventions-to-address-the-harms-of-the-carceral-system

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On Life Support Vera Institute

(6 days ago) WebOverview. Mass incarceration is one of the major public health challenges facing the United States, as the millions of people cycling through the courts, jails, and prisons …

https://www.vera.org/publications/on-life-support-public-health-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration

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On Life Support: Public Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration

(5 days ago) Webhealth and well-being of indi-viduals and communities most affected by mass incarceration. Guided by a national advisory board comprised of public health …

https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/on-life-support-public-health-mass-incarceration-overview.pdf

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Public health Prison Policy Initiative

(Just Now) WebIt’s also expensive: Astonishingly, most prisons charge incarcerated people a copay for doctor visits. The downstream effects — for both incarcerated people and the general …

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/health.html

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Why is Mass Incarceration a Public Health Crisis?

(7 days ago) WebThe Takeaway: Mass incarceration is a public health crisis. Incarcerated people are more likely to have chronic health problems. And, for the most part, incarcerated can’t get the …

https://howtojustice.org/im-in-prison/why-is-mass-incarceration-a-public-health-crisis/

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Linkages Between Incarceration and Health - PubMed

(1 days ago) WebPublic Health Rep. 2019 May/Jun;134(1_suppl):8S-14S. doi: 10.1177/0033354919826563. This article first provides an overview of the literature on the immediate and lasting …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31059410/

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Abolition, Incarceration, and the Public’s Health SPH

(2 days ago) WebAbolition, Incarceration, and the Public’s Health. . The United States is the most incarcerated nation in the world. Decades of harmful policies have led to overcrowded …

https://www.bu.edu/sph/conversations/health-inequities/abolition-incarceration-and-the-publics-health/

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Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be …

(6 days ago) WebIn 2022, about 448,400 people were released from prison, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. Under federal guidance released a year ago, states …

https://stateline.org/2024/05/02/many-states-are-eager-to-extend-medicaid-to-people-soon-to-be-released-from-prison/

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State leaders mobilize to strengthen reentry support for people …

(7 days ago) WebPrison leaders say that 2024 will be an inflection year to make significant progress breaking down barriers formerly incarcerated people face when returning to the …

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2024/04/26/we-can-make-more-success-stories-state-leaders-mobilize-to-strengthen-reentry-support/

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Measles in jails and prisons - The Lancet Public Health

(3 days ago) WebApproximately 2 million individuals are detained in jails and prisons in the USA, according to Vera statistics. Black people are disproportionately affected by mass …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00074-4/fulltext

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19. Hip Hop, Sociology and Incarcerated People’s Health

(9 days ago) WebMass incarceration in the United States is a public health crisis that disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities. Incarceration can impact both the physical and …

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/19-hip-hop-sociology-and-incarcerated-peoples-health/id1570474880?i=1000647711755

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Alaska tribal health consortiums are legally - Alaska Public Media

(7 days ago) WebFriday’s 4-1 decision means the tribal consortiums that provide health care for tens of thousands of Alaskans — both Native and non-Native — are largely immune from …

https://alaskapublic.org/2024/04/29/alaska-tribal-health-consortiums-are-legally-immune-in-many-cases-state-supreme-court-says/

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Leading Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh dies in Israeli prison

(7 days ago) WebDr. Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was declared dead by Israeli prison authorities at Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank on …

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/03/middleeast/gaza-surgeon-adnan-al-bursh-israeli-prison-intl-hnk/index.html?trk=public_post_comment-text

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