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Prevention and control of COVID-19 in nursing homes, orphanages, and prisons

open access: yesEnvironmental Pollution, 2020
As the number of Coronavirus Disease (2019) (COVID-19) cases increase globally, countries are taking more aggressive preventive measures against this pandemic.
Jiao Wang   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 in prisons: an impossible challenge for public health?

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2020
Brazil has 748,000 prison inmates 1, 50,000 of whom in the state of Rio de Janeiro alone, who are practically absent from the public debate on COVID-19.
Alexandra Sánchez   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pregnancy Outcomes in US Prisons, 2016-2017

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objectives To collect national data on pregnancy frequencies and outcomes among women in US state and federal prisons. Methods From 2016 to 2017, we prospectively collected 12 months of pregnancy statistics from a geographically diverse sample of 22 ...
C. Sufrin   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Contemporary transgender health experience and health situation in prisons: A scoping review of extant published literature (2000-2019).

open access: yesInternational Journal of Transgender Health, 2020
Background: Many jurisdictions globally have no specific prison policy to guide prison management and prison staff in relation to the special needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners despite the United Nations for the Treatment of
M. Van Hout, S. Kewley, Alyson Hillis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Africa, Prisons and COVID-19

open access: yesJournal of Human Rights Practice, 2020
Africa’s prisons are a long-standing concern for rights defenders given the prevalence of rights abuses, overcrowding, poor conditions of detention and the extent to which the criminal justice system is used to target the poor.
L. Muntingh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Court-Ordered Compulsory Psychiatric Care and the Prosecutor’s Control Function

open access: yesBergen 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
doaj   +1 more source

Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment Program in Hungarian Prisons in the Era of Direct Acting Antiviral Agents

open access: yesViruses, 2022
A hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening and treatment program was conducted in Hungarian prisons on a voluntary basis. After HCV-RNA testing and genotyping for anti-HCV positives, treatments with direct-acting antiviral agents were commenced by hepatologists
Klára Werling   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Status of Tuberculosis services in Indian Prisons

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Introduction: Prisons are known to be a high risk environment for tuberculosis (TB) due to overcrowding, low levels of nutrition, poor infection control and lack of accessible healthcare services.
Banuru Muralidhara Prasad   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

James Gacek (2022) Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022
Cristina Zackseski, Welliton Caixeta Maciel and Vinícius de Souza Assumpção review Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James ...
Cristina Zackseski   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study on development, validity and reliability of a risk-screening questionnaire for alcohol and drug use

open access: yesPsychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2017
Objective: The objective of this study is to develop a risk-screening questionnaire appropriate for cultural characteristics in detection of alcohol- and drug-use level through utilization of Addiction Profile Index (API) and perform the reliability and ...
Kültegin Ögel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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