Imprisonment and women's health: concerns about gender sensitivity, human rights and public health

The health of prisoners is among the poorest of any population group and the apparent inequalities pose both a challenge and an opportunity for country health systems.The high rates of imprisonment in many countries, the resulting overcrowding, characteristics of prison populations and the dispropor...

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Main Authors: Brenda J van den Bergh, Alex Gatherer, Andrew Fraser, Lars Moller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2011-09-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000900016&lng=en&tlng=en