International journal of prisoner health
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Int J Prison Health · Jan 2013
Characterization of pharmacy services in Portuguese prisons: a national survey.
The primary purpose of this paper is to collect reliable information to characterize the pharmacy services in Portuguese prisons. The secondary purpose is to develop a set of suggestions for improving these services and, therefore, improve the health services provided to the inmate population. ⋯ This paper is the first study about pharmacy services in Portuguese prisons. The information collected could be very useful to improve the Portuguese prison pharmacy services provided to prisoners.
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This paper aims to describe the strategies being put in place to develop blood borne virus (BBV) services across prisons in Wales, UK, in response to the recommendations for prisons within the Welsh Government's Blood Borne Viral Hepatitis Action Plan for Wales. ⋯ This paper describes new initiatives that have been established to tackle BBVs across Welsh prisons and will be relevant to any prison healthcare staff looking to develop similar services.
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Int J Prison Health · Jan 2012
Detainees in police custody: results of a health needs assessment in Northumbria, England.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the health needs of detainees in police custody in Northumbria, England, and to identify any gaps in, or possible improvements to, the current model of healthcare provision. ⋯ This health needs assessment will help to determine the way in which resources for health care in custody, currently held by the police, are reallocated once the funding transfers to the NHS in the near future.
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Int J Prison Health · Jan 2009
Women's health and prisons: it's time for urgent action. A report from the WHO Health in Prisons Project Annual Conference 'Prisons and Women's Health' 13 November 2008, Kiev, Ukraine.
The strongest international recognition of the importance of women's health in prisons and the urgent need for radical change was highlighted of a WHO Conference held recently in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Int J Prison Health · Jan 2009
Monitoring harm reduction in European prisons via the Dublin Declaration.
The Dublin Declaration on Partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia is the key policy document on HIV/AIDS in the European Region as a whole Among the Declaration's 33 actions for governments are many that apply to prison populations. Based upon an analysis of these commitments, and a review of the current status of states in meeting those targets, it is clear that the scale-up of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes and services in prisons lags far behind what is needed, what is available outside of prisons, and what is mandated within the Declaration itself.