4140.0 Marginalized/vulnerable communities: Prison Health

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session focuses on the health problems of the prison population. The first study examines the relationship among incarceration rates, public health spending, population health and health equities. The next three presentations discuss the needs of women prisoners from: whether or not it is best for preschool chidren to live in prison with their mothers or be separated from them upon incarceration; to the investigation of healthcare needs of women post-incarceration; and ending with a study of the mental health problems experienced by women prisoners in the United States.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify communities at increased health risk related to incarceration. 2. Describe potential child health implications of maternal incarceration during pregnancy. 3. Identify the healthcare needs of women post-incarceration. 4. Identify the mental health problems experienced by women prisoners in the United States.
Moderator:
Colleen Woolsey, PhD, ARNP, MSN

10:30 AM
Behavioral development of preschoolers who spent their first one to eighteen months in a prison nursery program with a supportive nursing intervention
Lorie S. Goshin, PhD, MSN, RN and Mary W. Byrne, PhD, MPH
     
10:50 AM
Healthcare Needs of Women Immediately Post-Incarceration
Alison M. Colbert, PhD, APRN, BC, L. Kathleen Sekula, PhD, APRN, BC, Rick Zoucha, PhD, APRN, BC, Susan Cohen, DSN, APRN, FAAN and Tammy L. Hughes, PhD
     
11:10 AM
Women prisoners' perspectives of mental health treatment in US jails and prisons
Anastasia Fisher, RN, DNSc and Diane Hatton, RN, DNSc
     

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Organized by: Public Health Nursing

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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