...Diksha Sapkota; Zara Hurst; Brigitte Braddock; Janet Ransley; Tara Renae McGee; Susan Dennison Purpose Despite growing recognition of substantial health-care needs among women involved with the criminal justice system ( CJS ), the patterns of health-care utilisation in this population remain under...

.... Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a narrative literature review to identify the complex health conditions and health services needs of incarcerated older adults in the USA and outline three primary barriers they face in accessing health care and social services during reentry. Findings...

...-versailles.fr 10 09 2021 21 12 2021 13 01 2022 14 01 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Youth incarceration Health care Conduct disorder Substance use disorder Family intervention Adolescent Conduct...

...Coral Sirdifield; Rebecca Marples; David Denney; Charlie Brooker Purpose This study aims to investigate the views of commissioners, providers and criminal justice staff on how effective current health-care provision is at meeting the health needs of people on probation. Understanding perceptions...

... dementia care and support needs. As well, issues pertaining to dementia are discussed with regards to prison staff, health care providers and correctional services (Gaston, 2018 ; Brooke et al., 2018 ; Maschi, Sutfin and O’Connell, 2012), although limited research has been done in this area...

..., and personal freedoms “creates atmospheres that impede adaptation to prison life and increase the likelihood of suicide” (Huey and McNulty, 2005). The prison of Champ-Dollon in Geneva, Switzerland has suffered from overcrowding since 1997. Over the last several years, prison health care professionals have...

...Marc Lehmann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the nature of medical care within the German penal system. German prison services provide health care for all inmates, including psychiatric care. The reached level of equivalence of care and ethical problems and resource limitations...

... arena. Design/methodology/approach One way to help assure that prisoners receive timely and appropriate health care is through independent review of health care services, to identify strengths of programs and opportunities for improvement. This is a quality of medical care assessment. When done...

... there are problems due to inadequate health care, which negatively affect prisoner health due to the poor quality of the living conditions correlated with limited mobility. Other studies (Braithwaite and Arriola, 2003) have shown how exposure to infectious diseases, HIV and others, is not actually bound...

... Health services Health care India Prisoners are a psychologically, socially and morally affected group who are disproportionately from a low socioeconomic background (Cunningham et al., 1985). Such socio‐demographic factors are closely associated with poor health in the community...

... the way in which resources for health care in custody, currently held by the police, are reallocated once the funding transfers to the NHS in the near future. The study combined two methods of health needs assessment. First, current service provision and possible areas for improvement were...

...L. F. Moller; B. J. Van Den Bergh; S. Karymbaeva; A. Esenamanova; R. Muratalieva In Kyrgyzstan the prevalence of injecting drug behaviour is among the highest found throughout the world. Health promotion training, improved health care and needle/syringe exchange (NSE) programmes have been shown...