Health Care Services in Jail: A Local Public Health Department’s Response
Author: Max Solano, M.D., C.C.H.P..; Nancy L. Winterbauer, Ph.D..
Source: Volume 10, Number 01, November/December 2008 , pp.1-5(5)
next article > |return to table of contents
Abstract:
The public health model for correctional health care has evolved from addressing infectious disease control to providing comprehensive medical, dental, and mental health services and ensuring continuity of care as inmates transition into free-living communities. 1 Despite growing recognition that correctional health is community health and despite the fact that correctional populations are at high risk for a large number of health problems, 2,3 systematic public health approaches have not been widely adopted. With a small number of notable exceptions, few local health departments administer health services in correctional facilities.Keywords: Duval County Health Department, Division of Institutional Medicine, public-health, STD, HIV, Wound, psychopathy
Affiliations:
1: Duval County Health Department; 2: University of Florida.