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Correctional Health
Care: Practice, Administration, and Law “An excellent overview for important issues in
correctional treatment ... [in a] rapidly changing health care environment.” Providing medical, dental, and mental health care to prison and jail inmates is both similar to and very different from providing care in the community. The familiar headaches of insurance reimbursement are perhaps less an issue in corrections, but budget constraints, security concerns, and a population that is in many respects less healthy, combine to make correctional health tremendously challenging for administrators and care providers. With chapters contributed by some of the leading authorities in practice today, Correctional Health Care: Practice, Administration and Law brings together an unrivalled team of experts focused on best practices and policies for the delivery of high quality care. This indispensable resource on institutional management issues and effective clinical approaches in the correctional environment:
“Correctional Health Care: Practice, Administration, and Law provides an excellent overview for important issues in
correctional treatment and the governmental duties under Estelle v. Gamble under the rapidly changing health care environment. These include changing demographics with more female, elderly, and juvenile inmates. This also covers the standards of care regarding new treatments for infectious diseases and chronic illnesses. It covers the coordination of medical and mental health problems, reentry to the community, recording keeping, confidentiality, and the indirect benefits of the ACA. All prison administrators and health providers will want to review these standards and the delivery of specialized mental health, dental, and gender specific care in order to improve the delivery of services and to avoid constitutional liability
... a treatise of strong thematic
content regarding treatment, confidentiality and standards of inmate care.” Related Publications:
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