NCJ Number
91157
Date Published
1979
Length
220 pages
Annotation
This series of papers deals with various aspects of inmate health care, including alcoholism treatment, crisis intervention, preventive care, training, standards implementation, and the unique health care problems of female offenders.
Abstract
The keynote address focuses on the cost effectiveness of standards implementation, while general session presentations deal with problemsolvers for health care in correctional institutions, court decisions on the role of the administrator and standards in ensuring quality health care from independent providers, and health care issues and illusion. The panel presentations cover a wide range of topics related to inmate health care, including the nature of various health problems such as alcoholism and suicidal behavior and health services for various types of offenders (juveniles, females, violent, and psychotic inmates). The custody-medical interface is considered in two papers on principles and models for this interface, and health preventive maintenance models are discussed in three papers. Improved communications in the health care network are addressed in two presentations, followed by a series of papers related to legal issues pertinent to inmate health care. Other topics covered are long-range health systems planning, medical and administrative aspects of inmate transfers and transportation, medical quality assurance review models, medical records systems, models for health care in small jails, nutritional needs, and the expanded role of the professional nurse in a correctional setting. Three papers are devoted to the importance of health care data collection and research. References accompany most papers. For individual papers, see NCJ 91158-67.