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What Does Health Justice Look Like for People Returning from Incarceration?
- Source :
- AMA Journal of Ethics; Sep2017, Vol. 19 Issue 9, p903-910, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Access to health care is a constitutional right in the United States correctional system, and many incarcerated adults are newly diagnosed with chronic diseases in prison. Despite this right, the quality of correctional health care is variable, largely unmeasured and unregulated, and characterized by patients' widespread distrust of a health system that is intimately tied to a punitive criminal justice system. Upon release, discontinuity of care is the norm, and when continuity is established, it is often hindered by distrust, discrimination, poor communication, and racism in the health system. In this paper, we will propose best practices in transitioning from correctional- to community-based health care and argue that achieving health equity for people with criminal justice involvement in the United States is not possible without ethical provision of health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MYOCARDIAL infarction diagnosis
PREVENTION of drug addiction
ATHEROSCLEROSIS
BUPRENORPHINE
COMMUNITY health services
CORONARY artery bypass
DRUG addiction
HEALTH services accessibility
HEALTH status indicators
CARDIAC rehabilitation
HOUSING
INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
PRISONERS
MEDICAL quality control
MYOCARDIAL infarction
NALOXONE
NEEDS assessment
MEDICAL care of prisoners
PROBATION
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
INDEPENDENT living
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23766980
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AMA Journal of Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125039583
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.9.ecas4-1709