Health and health care in the nation's prisons
Subtitle: issues, challenges, and policies
By: Melvin Delgado and Denise Humm-Delgado.
Contributors: Humm-Delgado, Denise.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780742563001
Subjects: Prisoners -- Medical care -- United States; Prisoners -- Health and hygiene -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States; Prisoners -- United States; Health Policy -- United States; Health Services Needs and Demand -- United States; Prisons -- organization & administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Demographics; title: Social inequalities; title: Political and ethical considerations; title: High-profile health needs; title: Low-profile health care needs; title: Death & dying; title: Approaches and service delivery models; title: Expensive treatments to health care is a privilege or a right?