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Looking behind the bars: emerging health issues for people in prison

Author(s) -

Sunita Stürup-Toft,

Éamonn O’Moore,

Emma Plugge

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

british medical bulletin

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.08

H-Index - 112

eISSN - 1471-8391

pISSN - 0007-1420

DOI - 10.1093/bmb/ldx052

Subject(s) - prison , government (linguistics) , health care , population , medicine , communicable disease , mental health , public health , economic growth , political science , criminology , environmental health , nursing , sociology , psychiatry , law , economics , linguistics , philosophy

There are more than 10 million people imprisoned worldwide. These individuals experience a higher burden of communicable and non-communicable disease, mental health and substance misuse problems than the general population and often come from marginalized and underserved groups in the community. Prisons offer an important opportunity for tackling health problems in a way that can deliver benefits to the individual and to the community. This paper focuses specifically on emerging health issues for prisons across the world.

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