All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Black and White North Carolina State Prisoners, 1995–2005
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The mortality of black prisoners was lower than that of black state residents for both traumatic and chronic causes of death and the mortality of white prisoners was higher than those of white stateResidents for accidents but greater for several chronic cause of death.About:
This article is published in Annals of Epidemiology.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 78 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mortality rate & Standardized mortality ratio.read more
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The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences
TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
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Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA.
TL;DR: How mass incarceration shapes inequality in health is examined, which raises concerns that excessive incarceration could harm entire communities and thus might partly underlie health disparities both in the USA and between theUSA and other developed countries.
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Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration
TL;DR: It is recommended that public health and medical practitioners capitalize on the public health opportunities provided by correctional settings to reach medically underserved communities, while simultaneously advocating for fundamental system change to reduce unnecessary incarceration.
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Incarceration and Health
TL;DR: The impact of incarceration on a range of individual outcomes, from chronic health conditions to mortality, and outcomes beyond the individual, including the health of family members and community health outcomes are considered.
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Mass Imprisonment and Inequality in Health and Family Life
TL;DR: In response to drastic increases and enduring disparities in American imprisonment, researchers have produced an expansive literature on the effects of mass imprisonment on inequality in America as mentioned in this paper, and the obstacles to estimating the effect of imprisonment on individuals and to using those estimates to calculate the macrolevel impact of incarceration.
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Foundations of Epidemiology
TL;DR: This introductory text gives an exceptionally clear and well organized account of epidemiologic concepts and methods, emphasizing the sequence of reasoning from different types of data that lead to inferences about the etiology or natural history of disease.
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Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates
Doris J. James,Lauren E. Glaze +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that more than half of all inmates in state and local jails had a mental health problem, including 56% of State prisoners, 45% of Federal prisoners, and 64% of jail inmates.
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Epidemiologic Analysis with a Programmable Calculator
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Prevalence of chronic medical conditions among jail and prison inmates in the USA compared with the general population
TL;DR: Jail and prison inmates had a higher burden of most chronic medical conditions than the general population even with adjustment for important sociodemographic differences and alcohol consumption.
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Prisoner Survival Inside and Outside of the Institution: Implications for Health-Care Planning
Anne C. Spaulding,Ryan M. Seals,Victoria A. McCallum,Sebastian D. Perez,Amanda K. Brzozowski,N. Kyle Steenland +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the low mortality inside prisons can be explained by the rarity of deaths unlikely to occur in the context of incarceration and compassionate releases of moribund patients.
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