Correctional health care: barriers, solutions and public policy.
Corrections Today › Vol. 69 Nbr. 5, October 2007
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Correctional health care: barriers, solutions and public policy.
Corrections faces many barriers in its efforts to deliver inmate health care, and these barriers contribute to the variation found across correctional venues in the quality of health care provided to inmates. The absence of a universal and effective public policy strategy for the provision of health care services to inmates, both during incarceration and after release, is a contributing factor to the "quality gap" that exists. This is not a new issue; however, addressing correctional health care from the perspective of the interests of the public is a relatively new approach.
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