Early detection, assessment and response to acute public health events:
Lancet Glob Health 2015; 3: e396–409. Open Access
front cover © Hannah Maule-Ffinch/Save the Children
A policy brief on the organization of prison health
Directions in Development
Human Development
Policy Brief
Accessed: 20.11.2019
Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr...esent important opportunities to promote health and risk reduction that need to be tapped.
Some recommended remedies:
Health ministries, not ministries of justice, should manage health care responsibilities
Ensure that testing is available, but not mandatory, for infectious diseases
Make prison health part of the broader public health agenda
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Regional Initiative for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Congenital Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, D.C., 2017
Learning from the Use of Data, Information, and Digital Technologies in the West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response