Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing (한국보건간호학회지)
- Volume 10 Issue 2
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- Pages.61-73
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- 1996
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- 1226-0290(pISSN)
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- 2234-2869(eISSN)
Review on Correctional Health Care of Custody Facilities
교정시설 재소자의 보건의료관리실태에 관한 고찰
- Cho Yoo Hyang (Dept. of Nursing, Cho Dang San Up University) ;
- Sung Seung Mo (Medical Law Institute, Korea University)
- Published : 1996.09.01
Abstract
The Korea now incarcerates a greater percentage of its Population than any other country : For 63,000 prisoners in 40 prisons and jails. Most inmates are mate. young, poor, and morbidity groups. Most are substance abusers with substantial physical and mental health needs. Corrections in general and correctional health care in particular have suffered negative consequence : severe overcrowding, insuffcient programs as the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS). tuberculosis, and hepatitis. The large increase in the number of substance abusers and sick and terminally ill inmates has rendered our nation's prisons and jails physically or financially unable to deal with their current populations, much less the explosive increases the future holds. It is the magnitude of inmate health problems that threatens to overwhelm the substantial gains made in correctional health care over the past two decades. As measured by recognized standards of inmate health and health services, our correctional systems are in crisis. As a nation. we must respond to the problem of health problem with national strategies that do not overwhelm the capacity of our criminal justice system to care for its inmates.
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