| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Health needs of prisoners in England and Wales
— the implications for prison healthcare of gender, age and ethnicity | | Author(s) | Francesca Harris, Gill Hek, Louise Condon |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 15, no 1, January 2007 |
| Pages | pp 56-66 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Prisoners ; Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | A systematic overview of policy and research literature on primary care nursing in prisons in England and Wales was undertaken as part of a larger research project for the Department of Health (DH). That project examined the views and perspectives of prisoners and nurses working in prisons and aimed to identify good primary care nursing in the prison environment. 17 databases were searched using search terms related to primary healthcare in prisons (health, nurs*, primary care, healthcare, family medicine, prison*, offender*, inmate*) with terms truncated where possible in the different databases. Following this, a sifting phase was employed using inclusion/exclusion criteria to narrow and focus the literature perceived as relevant to the research questions. All papers were critically appraised for quality using standardised tools. Findings from the literature overview show that prisoners are more likely to have suffered some form of social exclusion compared to the rest of society, and there are significantly greater degrees of mental health problems, substance abuse, and worse physical health in prisoners than in the general population. Women, young offenders, older prisoners and those from minority ethnic groups have distinct health needs compared to the prison population taken as a whole, with implications for the delivery of prison healthcare, and how these needs are met effectively and appropriately. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070413243 A |
| Classmark | TGF: L: IK: 64A |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|