Public Health Behind Bars Book

Foreword by David Satcher.- Introduction: Thirty Years Since Estelle v. Gamble.- Looking Forward, Not Wayward.- Section I: Impact of Law and Public Policy on Correctional Populations.- Impact of Incarceration on Communities, Crime and Public Health.- Litigating for Better Medical Care.- Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons.- Growing Older - Special Issues Arising with Aging Prisoners.- International Public Health and Corrections - Models of care and Harm Minimization.- The Medicalization of Execution - Lethal Injection in the United States.- Section II: Communicable Disease. HIV and Viral Hepatitis in Corrections.- Prevention of Viral Hepatitis.- HIV prevention and Reentry.- Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional Facilities.- Controlling Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis through targeted screening and treatment in correctional settings.- Section III: Primary and Secondary Prevention.- Health Promotion in Jails and Prisons: An Alternate Paradigm for Correctional Health Services.- Screening for public purpose: Promoting an evidence-based approach to screening of inmates to improve the public health.- Written Health Informational Needs for Reentry.- Reducing Inmate Suicides Through the Mortality Review Process.- Blinders to accurate psychiatric diagnosis - improving detection of mental illness.- Juvenile Corrections and Public Health Collaborations: Opportunities for Improved Health Outcomes.- Women Prisoners and the Case for Gender-Specific Treatment and Reentry Programs.- Building the Case for Oral Health Care for Prisoners: Presenting the Evidence and Calling for Justice.- Section IV: Tertiary Prevention.- Treatment of Mental Illness in Correctional Settings.- Treatment and Reentry Approaches for Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders.- Pharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse in Correctional Facilities: Prospects and Barriers to Expanding Access to Evidence-Based Therapy.- Section V: Thinking Forward to Reentry - Reducing Barriers/Community Linkages.- Research - Citing the evidence: research done, data sources, research yet to be done, unique challenges of doing research in correctional settings.- Reentry Experiences of Men with Health Problems.- Providing Transition and Outpatient Services to the Mentally Ill Released from Correctional Institutions.- Sexual Predators: Diversion, civil commitment, community re-integration, challenges and opportunities.- Electronic Health Records Systems and Continuity of Care.- Community Health and Public Health Collaborations.- Improving the Care for HIV-Infected Prisoners: An Integrated Prison-Release Health Model.