Health Care in Prison Thirty Years After Estelle v. Gamble Export

@article{citeulike:2620612, abstract = {Raising access to health care for incarcerated people to a constitutional right radically changed correctional health care. It also established a constantly changing standard of required care because the right is based on evolving standards of health care in the general community. A prison system must continually monitor new health care possibilities and attempt to determine what is required. Correctional health care must consider access, quality, and cost together as part of a system; this may be easier to do in a clearly defined setting such as corrections than in the community. Estelle also taught incarcerated people that lawsuits can be used to improve care and to attempt to force the prison system to provide the care they want. 10.1177/1078345807309618}, author = {Wright, Lester N.}, citeulike-article-id = {2620612}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078345807309618}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/31}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1078345807309618}, journal = {JOURNAL OF CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE}, keywords = {correctional\_health\_care, epidemiology, expertise, foster-care, funding, health-care, jurisprudence, prison, us}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {31--35}, posted-at = {2009-10-27 23:41:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Health Care in Prison Thirty Years After Estelle v. Gamble}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078345807309618}, volume = {14}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2620612 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2620612 N2 - Raising access to health care for incarcerated people to a constitutional right radically changed correctional health care. It also established a constantly changing standard of required care because the right is based on evolving standards of health care in the general community. A prison system must continually monitor new health care possibilities and attempt to determine what is required. Correctional health care must consider access, quality, and cost together as part of a system; this may be easier to do in a clearly defined setting such as corrections than in the community. Estelle also taught incarcerated people that lawsuits can be used to improve care and to attempt to force the prison system to provide the care they want. 10.1177/1078345807309618 IS - 1 JF - JOURNAL OF CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE EP - 35 TI - Health Care in Prison Thirty Years After Estelle v. Gamble VL - 14 SP - 31 KW - correctional_health_care KW - epidemiology KW - expertise KW - foster-care KW - funding KW - health-care KW - jurisprudence KW - prison KW - us AU - Wright, Lester PY - 2008/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078345807309618 ER -