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4199.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| All too often prisons increase public health dangers in society rather than safety. Prisons in the US and Europe have fueled the Hepatitis C epidemic by ignoring important opportunities for meaningful interventions to quell the crisis. Russian prisons are central to the MDR TB epidemic there. Overcrowding, idleness and despair in many penal systems including the US provoke violence behind the walls and in our communities. This session will explore from an international perspective various ways societies use prisons. Members of the WHO Health in Prison Project will illustrate important strategies for prison reform including some of the best practice solutions to the problems of infectious disease, mental health, rehabilitation and community resettlement, as well as policy development and implementation throughout greater Europe. Experience over a decade has underlined the importance of a human rights based management approach for prison throughout the globe and the essential need to include the special needs of prisons in national and local public health strategies for the prevention and control of serious diseases. Without this, prisons will remain a danger to the public’s health. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Be able to describe the various ways nations use prisons. 2. Be able to list ways prisons contribute to the public's health, or become dangerous. 3. Understand the policy and programatic pitfalls and successes of WHO's Health in Prison Project. | ||||
| Panelist(s): | John Boyington, CBE Alex Gatherer, MD Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP Lars Moller, PhD | |||
| Organizer(s): | Corey Weinstein | |||
| Moderator(s): | Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP | |||
| 2:30 PM |  | Politics, Policies and Prisons: A Success Story from England John Boyington, MD | ||
| 2:50 PM | | Lessons From a Public Health Approach to Imprisonment Rate: Five Groups of Nations Alex Gatherer, MD | ||
| 3:10 PM | | United States: The Nation That Loves Prisons Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP | ||
| 3:30 PM | | A Public Health Approach in Prisons Lars Moller, PhD | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | APHA-International Human Rights Committee | |||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; HIV/AIDS | |||
| Outside sponsors: | WHO Health in Prisons Project | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA