Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greifinger, Robert B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Health administration.; Criminology.; Psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Law and Psychology.; Health Administration.

Projecting correctional facility-based health care into the community arena, Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the considerable impact on public health as prisoners are released. More than forty practi...