Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities

ISBN-13: 9781071618097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 520 str.

Robert B. Greifinger

Opis

Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. This book makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they reenter.

Spis treści

The second edition plans to include revisions/updates to 18 chapters, likely revisions/updates to five chapters, and six chapters are as yet confirmed. Chapter 8 from the first edition will be dropped from the second edition.

In addition, the editor has confirmed seven new chapters: correctional nursing (Section 4), sanitation to prevent intramural transmission (Section 3), transitions from prisons to communities (Section 5), segregation (Section 5), the European experience (Section 1), and root cause analysis for quality improvement (Section 3).  A chapter on ethics is contemplated (Section 1).

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Authors listed are from the first edition; second edition TBD

1. Thirty Years Since Estelle v. Gamble: Looking Forward, Not Wayward 

Robert B. Greifinger

Section 1: Impact of Law and Public Policy on Correctional Populations

2. Impact of Incarceration on Community Public Safety and Public Health

Todd R. Clear

3. Litigating for Better Medical Care 

Jon Wool

4. Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons 

R. Samuel Paz

5. Growing Older: Challenges of Prison and Reentry for the Aging Population

Brie Williams and Rita Abraldes

6. International Public Health and Corrections: Models of Care and Harm Minimization

Michael Levy

7. The Medicalization of Execution: Lethal Injection in the United States

Mark Heath

NEW: The European experience (Section 1)

TBD: A chapter on ethics is contemplated (Section 1)

Section 2: Communicable Disease

8. Prevention of Viral Hepatitis 

Cindy Weinbaum and Karen A. Hennessey

9. HIV Prevention: Behavioral Interventions in Correctional Settings 

Barry Zack

10. Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities

Farah M. Parvez

11. Controlling Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis Through Targeted Screening and Treatment in Correctional Settings 

Charlotte K. Kent and Gail A. Bolan

Section 3: Primary and Secondary Prevention

12. Health Promotion in Jails and Prisons: An Alternative Paradigm for Correctional Health Services 

Megha Ramaswamy and Nicholas Freudenberg

13. Screening for Public Purpose: Promoting an Evidence-based Approach to Screening of Inmates to Improve the Public Health 

Joshua D. Lee, Marshall W. Fordyce, and Josiah D. Rich

14. Written Health Informational Needs for Reentry

Jeff Mellow

15. Reducing Inmate Suicides Through the Mortality Review Process

Lindsay M. Hayes

16. Blinders to Comprehensive Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Correctional System

Richard L. Grant

17. Juvenile Corrections and Public Health Collaborations: Opportunities for Improved Health Outcomes 

Michelle Staples-Horne, Kaiyti Duffy, and Michele T. Rorie

18. Female Prisoners and the Case for Gender-Specific Treatment and Reentry Programs

Andrea F. Balis

19. Building the Case for Oral Health Care for Prisoners: Presenting the Evidence and Calling for Justice 

Henrie M. Treadwell, Mary E. Northridge, and Traci N. Bethea

NEW: Sanitation to prevent intramural transmission (Section 3)

NEW: Root cause analysis for quality improvement (Section 3)

Section 4: Tertiary Prevention

20. Treatment of Mental Illness in Correctional Settings

Raymond F. Patterson and Robert B. Greifinger

21. Treatment and Reentry Approaches for Offenders with Co-occurring Disorders 

Roger H. Peters and Nicole M. Bekman

22. Pharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse in Correctional Facilities: Prospects and Barriers to Expanding Access to Evidence-Based Therapy 

R. Douglas Bruce, Duncan Smith-Rohrberg, and Frederick L. Altice

NEW: Correctional nursing (Section 4)

Section 5: Thinking Forward to Reentry—Reducing Barriers and Building Community Linkages

23. Health Research Behind Bars: A Brief Guide to Research in Jails and Prisons

Nicholas Freudenberg

24. Reentry Experiences of Men with Health Problems 

Christy A. Visher and Kamala Mallik-Kane

25. Providing Transition and Outpatient Services to the Mentally Ill Released from Correctional Institutions

Steven K. Hoge

26. Sexual Predators: Diversion, Civil Commitment, Community Reintegration, Challenges, and Opportunities 

Karen Terry

27. Electronic Health Records Systems and Continuity of Care 

Ralph P. Woodward

28. Community Health and Public Health Collaborations 

Thomas Lincoln, John R. Miles, and Steve Scheibel

29. Improving the Care for HIV-Infected Prisoners: An Integrated Prison-Release Health Model

Sandra A. Springer and Frederick L. Altice

NEW: Transitions from prisons to communities (Section 5)

Index

O autorze

Robert B. Greifinger, MD is a healthcare policy and quality management consultant.  His work focuses on design, management, and quality improvement in correctional healthcare systems.  He has extensive experience in the development and management of complex community and institutional healthcare programs, and strengths in the bridging of clinical and public policy interests.  

Dr. Greifinger has published extensively in the area of correctional health care.  He has been a frequent speaker on public policy, communicable disease control and quality management in corrections.  Dr. Greifinger was the principal investigator for the Report to Congress on Seizing Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care, published in 2002.  He was Co-Editor of the International Journal of Prisoner Health from 2010 - 2016. Dr. Greifinger is the editor of Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities (1st Edition, 2007; 2nd Edition, 2022), Springer, New York.  He currently serves as the Federal Court-appointed medical monitor for the jails in Miami, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Blurb

This contributed volume takes a comprehensive look at factors that impact correctional health care and the related implications for public health and public health policy. It identifies the most compelling health problems behind bars (including communicable and chronic diseases, mental illness, addiction, and suicide), pinpoints systemic barriers to care, and explains how correctional medicine can shift from emergency or crisis care to primary care and prevention. It also discusses the impact of public policy on correctional populations and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. In this new edition, the multidisciplinary authorship continues to make a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they re-enter.

Keeping in mind that the United States of America leads the world in the percentage of its population that is incarcerated, the book grapples with whether crime in our communities is diminished by incarcerating more and more people and whether health care behind bars could improve the health status of our communities. Special concerns arise when there are prisoners with physical or mental disabilities, who have spent long periods in segregation, and others who are simply growing old.

New to the second edition are chapters on correctional nursing, sanitation to prevent intramural transmission, transitions from prisons to communities, the European experience, and root cause analysis for quality improvement, as well as revisions/updates to more than half of the chapters from the first edition that published in 2007.

Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, 2nd Edition, should be of immediate interest to correctional health practitioners and correctional administrators. The text also is essential reading for civil rights attorneys, journalists, scholars whose work is at the interface of criminal justice and public health, and students of criminal justice, public health, community health, healthcare administration, health policy, civil rights law, and sociology.

"In 2007, when Robert Greifinger first compiled a trove of information about the distressing intersection of public health and incarceration, it was, he says, like a textbook for a class that didn't exist. Since then the physical and mental health care crisis in our prisons and jails has aroused a national sense of urgency, and this extensively updated collection of solutions-based essays could not be more timely. It is an invaluable resource for policy-makers, educators, reform activists – and journalists".

 

          – Bill Keller, Founding Editor, The Marshall Project, New York, NY, USA