Carceral epidemiology

Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted what has been long-known: mass incarceration is a key component of structural racism that creates and ...

Carceral-community epidemiology, structural racism, and COVID-19 ...

We find that cycling individuals through Cook County Jail in March 2020 alone can account for 13% of all COVID-19 cases and 21% of racial COVID-19 disparities ...

Carceral Health is Public Health - Volume 30, Supplement ... - CDC

Every person's health has inherent value, and their wellbeing matters to them and to their loved ones, regardless of whether they are incarcerated. In addition, ...

Justice and Wellness for All: Beyond the Carceral Public Health Crisis

The American carceral system is a public health catastrophe at every level, from the scientific racism upon which it is built to the abysmal ...

Carceral Health is Public Health - PMC

Carceral health is public health. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Suppl 1 [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3013.240258

Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the ...

How carceral approaches shape nonreporting among survivors, with research suggesting that as many as half of violent victimizations in the United States go ...

Carceral-community epidemiology, structural racism, and COVID-19 ...

Black and Hispanic communities are disproportionately affected by both incarceration and COVID-19. The epidemiological relationship between carceral ...

Incarceration - Healthy People 2030 | odphp.health.gov

Incarceration is a mechanism to punish criminal offenses, 4 but it can affect the health and well-being of those currently incarcerated, those with a history ...

Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism ...

Creator. LeMasters, Katherine. Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren.

Carceral Health is Public Health - CDC stacks

been held in a prison or jail for at least 1 night (6). Simply stated, carceral health is public health. Every person's health has inherent value, and their.

Addressing the Public Health Crisis of U.S. Carceral Facilities

A robust, integrated, and ethical public health response to mitigate COVID-19 and other brutal conditions within carceral facilities could provide a foundation ...

Carceral Amplification of COVID-19: Impacts for Community

We present a mathematical model to explore the epidemiologic impact of such interventions in jails and contrast them with the consequences of maintaining ...

How Mass Incarceration Makes Us All Sick | Health Affairs Forefront

Due to political refusals to adequately address overcrowding, poor health care, and poor living conditions, incarcerated people in jails and ...

Public health | Prison Policy Initiative

Health ... People in prisons and jails are disproportionately likely to have chronic health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, and HIV, as well as ...

Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration is a sociostructural driver of profound health inequalities in the United States. The political and economic forces underpinning mass ...

Incarcerated Populations and Healthcare: Myths and Facts - News

A CU Anschutz researcher dispels major myths surrounding health in the carceral system in the United States - and the far reaching impacts ...

Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the ...

APHA recommends moving toward the abolition of carceral systems and building in their stead just and equitable structures that advance the public's health.

Violence and the Carceral State: A Public Health Continuum

This Viewpoint examines 3 specific issues related to violence in Black and other marginalized communities in the US: firearm-related deaths, violence in the ...

Carceral-community epidemiology, structural racism, and COVID-19 ...

The epidemiological relationship between carceral facilities and community health during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, remains largely ...

Chronic Punishment: The unmet health needs of people in state ...

... carceral, community-based solutions. States must curtail their reliance on police, jails, courts, and prisons as solutions to social and public health problems.