All-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study.

<h4>Background</h4>Mortality during and after incarceration is poorly understood in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The need to address this knowledge gap is especially urgent in South America, which has the fastest growing prison population in the world. In Brazil, insufficien...

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Main Authors: Yiran E Liu, Everton Ferreira Lemos, Crhistinne Cavalheiro Maymone Gonçalves, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Andrea da Silva Santos, Agne Oliveira do Prado Morais, Mariana Garcia Croda, Maria de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Julio Croda, Katharine S Walter, Jason R Andrews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-09-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003789