3089.0 Medical Care Poster Session 4: Jail and Prison Health

Monday, October 29, 2012: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Poster
Session Objectives: Describe health risks of the environment during incarceration. Discuss some specific conditions, like infections and assault, which incarcerated persons suffer. Assess some behaviors of incarcerated persons associated with health risks. State frequencies of several conditions found in jails and prisons.

Board 1
Multiplicative Effect of Incarceration on the Health of Vulnerable Populations
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, MA, MS
Board 2
Addressing the HepC epidemic in RI: Developing screening, treatment, education and prevention protocols for incarcerated populations
Brad Brockmann, JD, MDiv
Board 3
Assessing Health Needs of the Burlington, Vermont Probation and Parole Population
Nicole Benson, Katelynn Ferranti, Laura Frischer, Jonathan Galli, Kevin Kuruvilla, Stanislav Lazarev, Nathan Louras, Herb Sinkinson, Jill Jemison and Jan K. Carney, MD MPH
Board 4
Improving Care in NYC Jail System for Transgender Patients and Patients Reporting Sexual Assault
Homer D. Venters, MD MS, Mohamed Jaffer, PA and Ross MacDonald, MD
Board 5
Paying the price: The national lack of publically available prison healthcare cost data
Cyrus Ahalt, MPP, Carolyn B. Sufrin, MD, MA and Brie Williams, MD
Board 6
Reducing HIV service gaps among inmates: Using local change teams to improve implementation
Steven Belenko, PhD, Christy Visher, PhD and Jennifer Clarke, MD, MPH
Board 7
Surveillance of Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in the New York City Jail System
Daniel Selling, PsyD, Homer D. Venters, MD MS, Elena Panove, PhD, Angela Solimo, MA, David Lee, MPH and Kerry Horne
Board 8
Smoking Patterns Among Parolees in the San Francisco Bay Area
Benjamin Howell, Joseph Guydish, PhD, MPH, Alex Kral, PhD and Megan Comfort
Board 9
Participatory Research by Women in a Canadian Prison:–“What Housing do we Need?”
Ruth Martin, MD, UBC School of Population and Public Health, James Harris, UBC Medicine Class of 2014, Heather Filek, UBC Medicine Class of 2014, Mo Korchinski, Kelly Murphy, Jane Buxton, MBBS, MHSc FRCPC, Vivian Ramsden, RN PhD, Alison Granger-Brown, MA, Lara-Lisa Condello, MA, Ann C. Macaulay, MD, Patti Janssen, PhD and T. Gregory Hislop, MDCM

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