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1033125
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b787495
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Delgado, Melvin.
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Health and health care in the nation's prisons : : issues, challenges, and policies /\ Melvin Delgado and Denise Humm-Delgado.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, Md. :: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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0742563464
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: 1282496352
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: 9780742563469
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: 9781282496354
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0742563006
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9780742563001
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Demographics -- Social inequalities -- Political and ethical considerations -- High-profile health needs -- Low-profile health care needs -- Death & dying -- Approaches and service delivery models -- Expensive treatments to health care is a privilege or a right?
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| Abstract
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The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases, prisons struggle to adequately address health care needs in a financially feasible way. Many prisoners enter the system with medical problems that have gone unmet, and the toxic environments inside the prisons further compromise their health, causing serious problems both within the prisons themselves and in society as a whole when the prisoners are released. Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons presents.
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Prisoners-- Health and hygiene-- United States.
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Prisoners-- Medical care-- United States.
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Prisoners-- Health and hygiene.
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Prisoners-- Medical care.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Penology.
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Delivery of Health Care-- organization administration.
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Prisoners.
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Health Policy.
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Health Services Needs and Demand.
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Prisons-- organization administration.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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365/.6670973
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| LC Classification
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HV8843.D448 2008eb
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WA 300D352h 2008
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Humm-Delgado, Denise.
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