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Worth Reading: Vaccine Effectiveness; Fear of Contagion; Hepatitis A  


Author:  Margaret R. Moreland, JD, MSLS.


Source: Volume 24, Number 02, Spring 2023 , pp.33-37(5)




Correctional Health Care Report

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Abstract: 

Our regular survey of the research literature includes summaries of thre important studies: “Vaccine Effectiveness During Outbreak of COVID-19 Alpha (B.1.1.7) Variant in Men’s Correctional Facility, United States” by Rachel A. Silverman, Alessandro Ceci, Alasdair Cohen, Meagan Helmick, Erica Short, Paige Bordwine, Michael J. Friedlander, and Carla V. Finkielstein, published in 28 Emerging Infectious Diseases 1321 (2022); “Fear of Infectious Diseases and Perceived Contagion Risk Count as an Occupational Health and Safety Hazard: Accounts from Correctional Officer Recruits in Canada” by Marcella Siqueira Cassiano, Fatih Ozturk, and Rosemary Ricciardelli, published in 55 Journal of Criminology 47 (2022); “Recent Incarceration Among Individuals Infected with Hepatitis A Virus During Person-to-Person Community Outbreaks, United States, 2016-2020” by Liesl M. Hagan, et al, published in Public Health Reports (published first online July 20, 2022).

Keywords: Vaccine Effectiveness; Staff Fear of Contagion; Community Outbreaks of Hepatitis A

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