Sustainable freight transport optimisation through synchromodal networks
Cogent Engineering, 2017 The conventional intermodal freight transportation system lacks the needed flexibility, efficiency and effectiveness among other things. The search for more sustainable system for maritime-hinterland transportation has culminated in the development of ...
Aaron Agbenyegah Agbo, Yanwei Zhang
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Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2014 The author, based on the circumstances that contributed to the creation of private prisons, has explained the historical development of private prisons in the United States and Great Britain.
Dimovski Darko
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Gang Activity in English Prisons: The Prisoners’ Perspective. [PDF]
, 2006 Gang activity in American prisons has resulted in serious problems for prisoners and staff (e.g. Fong & Buentello 1991; Stevens 1997). This study assessed prisoners’ perceptions of gang-event frequency in the U.K.
Wood, Jane L.
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Control and choice in English prisons: developing health-promoting prisons. [PDF]
, 2014 The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings.
South, J, Dixey, R, Woodall, J
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Court-Ordered Compulsory Psychiatric Care and the Prosecutor’s Control Function
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2019 The health care system is responsible for the implementation of court-ordered compulsory psychiatric care. In order to ensure that the health care system fulfills the statutory responsibility for crime protection, the legislature has added a control ...
Øyvind Holst
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Modelling alternative strategies for delivering hepatitis B vaccine in prisons : the impact on the vaccination coverage of the injecting drug user population [PDF]
, 2008 Since 2001 hepatitis B vaccination has been offered to prisoners on reception into prisons in England and Wales. However, short campaigns of vaccinating the entire population of individual prisons have achieved high vaccination coverage for limited ...
Sutton, AJ +8 more
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Zimbabwe’s prison facilities: Preparedness for institutional COVID-19 outbreaks
Public Health in Practice, 2021 Covid-19 cases and death are on the rise in Zimbabwe and other Southern African countries. This increase poses a major risk of outbreaks in institutions such as prisons and detention centers.
Solomon Mukwenha +3 more
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Identifying health promotion needs among prison staff in three English prisons: results from a qualitative study. [PDF]
, 2013 Prisons are seen as a (temporary) home and community for offenders, yet they also have a dual role as a workplace for prison staff. This article explores how the "healthy settings" philosophy, commonly used in schools, applies in the prison environment ...
Woodall, J
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Exploring concepts of health with male prisoners in three category-C English prisons [PDF]
, 2010 Lay understandings of health and illness have a well established track record and a plethora of research now exists which has examined these issues. However, there is a dearth of research which has examined the perspectives of those who are imprisoned ...
Woodall, J
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Clinical mentorship and TB detection in prison health facilities
IJTLD OpenBACKGROUND: TB incidence in prison populations exceeds surrounding communities by factors of up to 100. Early case detection in correctional systems is constrained by gaps in health care worker training and inconsistent application of diagnostic ...
J. Fielder +9 more
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