... in prison Health policy Human rights Correctional healthcare Medical ethics Prison medicine The right of children to health is one of the most fundamental human rights and is safeguarded by both national and international regulations. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child...

.... Older prisoners Health and social services Barriers and enablers Prison-to-community transition Offender health Housing Correctional healthcare Elderly prisoners Post-release care Qualitative research In almost all countries the number of older prisoners is increasing...

... 06 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Criminal justice system Health policy Forensic psychiatry Correctional healthcare Violence Police custody As a result of dramatic changes in the US mental health system...

...Mary Rogan Purpose Correctional healthcare should promote the protection of human rights. The purpose of this paper is to bring a discussion of human rights into debates on how such policy should be best organized. Design/methodology/approach The paper achieves its aim by providing an analysis...

.... Public policy Correctional healthcare Aging prison populations Criminal justice health Older offenders Prison overcrowding Reforms to reduce prison populations like those that have been enacted in California also do not address structural factors including the remote locations of most prisons...

... of recommendations that begin with the importance of embracing gender-affirming healthcare policies and practices. Jae Sevelius can be contacted at: jae.sevelius@ucsf.edu 28 08 2016 07 12 2016 22 12 2016 05 01 2017 Health in prison Correctional healthcare Health policy...

... of continuous mental agility and moral/emotional flexibility that few activities (including other arts-related ones) can demand with comparable immediacy and directness. Correctional healthcare Personality disorder Women prisoners Psychological health Mentalization Reading therapy The care...

... Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only HIV Public health Health in prison HIV/AIDS Correctional healthcare Infectious disease By year end 2010, there were approximately 7.1 million offenders supervised under the US adult correctional system...

... Correctional healthcare Post-release care Rehabilitation In total, 30 in-depth interviews were conducted with individuals enrolled in one of two existing longitudinal studies investigating post-release health behaviors among HIV-infected released prisoners (n=29) or jail (n=1) detainees...