Overview
- Investigates the impact of prison and prisoner culture on well-being of prisoners (e.g. forced sex and hierarchy), women’s, migrant and ethnic minorities’ health
- Describes holistically at the prison settings as an institution in the context of health promotion approach (developed by the World Health Organisation) in the context of public health
- Brings together research and practice to improve health policy and practice within the prison environment using evidence based approaches
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The volume discusses prisons and the life and well-being of prisoners and staff, after growing problems as drug misuse (incl. tobacco smoking), infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, STIs and TB), psychiatric problems, inadequate and unhealthy living conditions (incl. nutrition), overcrowding of prisons. These are addressed adequately in order to meet the international requirements of equivalence of health care.
The scope of this volume is at the same type specific and diverse enough to cover the interests of a large audience that includes many types of practitioners involved in health-related issues in the field of prison health care, such as psychologists, nurses and prison administration officers responsible for health care, legal professionals and social workers.
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Keywords
- Supporting Families and Children
- Health Promotion of Prisoners
- Prisoners and Human Rights
- Art Therapy in Prisons
- Prisoner Health
- Gender in Prisons
- Psychiatric Problems in Prisoners
- Drugs in Prisons
- Prison Health Caere
- Immigration Detention in Europe
- International Human Rights System
- Prison Staff and Stress Issues
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Catherine Ritter is trained as a medical doctor. She currently works as an independent expert in prison health. Her areas of interest are addiction, transmittable diseases and health promotion among prisoners and migrants.
Heino Stöver is Director of the Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt am main, Germa-ny. He is President of the German Harm Reduction Umbrella Network (www.akzept.org). He graduated in social sciences and his current research inter-ests are health promotion among vulnerable groups, drug services, and health is-sues in closed settings (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and drug dependence, health of prison staff).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Issues in Prison Health
Editors: Bernice S. Elger, Catherine Ritter, Heino Stöver
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7558-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7556-4Published: 16 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1380-9Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7558-8Published: 05 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 259
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Forensic Medicine