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Behaviors That Increase Risk  


Author:  Margaret R. Moreland, J.D., M.S.L.S..


Source: Volume 19, Number 06, September/October 2018 , pp.89-90(2)




Correctional Health Care Report

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Abstract: 

Prisoners engage in a range of risk behaviors that increase the likelihood of transmission of viral infections. This article reviews an important new study published in Epidemiologic Reviews, “Prevalence of Drug Injection, Sexual Activity, Tattooing, and Piercing Among Prison Inmates” by Babak Moazen, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam,Marisa A. Silbernagl, Masoud Lotfi zadeh, Rebecca J. Bosworth, Zahra Alammehrjerdi, Stuart A. Kinner, Andrea L. Wirtz, Till W. Bärnighausen, Heino J. Stöver, and Kate A. Dolan. The article’s international group of authors systematically reviewed and summarized the epidemiologic literature from 2007 to 2017 on four identifi ed risk behaviors engaged in by prisoners globally: drug injection, sex, tattooing, and piercing among prisoners. Their findings are summarized in this brief research review.

Keywords: Drug Injection, Sexual Activity, Tattooing, and Piercing Among Prison Inmates

Affiliations:  1: Pace University Law School.

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