Burden, costs and prevention measures for communicable diseases among inmates in Europe

Communicable Diseases in Inmates: Public Health Opportunities

At midyear 1997, more than 1.7 million people, or 1 of every 155 U.S. residents, were in either jail or prison. At yearend 1997, 1 of every 117 males and 1 of every 1,852 females in this country were sentenced prisoners under State or Federal criminal jurisdiction.1 Fifteen million arrests are made annually,2 and more than 10 million individuals are released from detention each year. Approximat...

[Prevention and control of communicable diseases].

HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases among correctional inmates: transmission, burden, and an appropriate response.

Correctional inmates engage in drug-related and sexual risk behaviors, and the transmission of HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted diseases occurs in correctional facilities. However, there is uncertainty about the extent of transmission, and hyperbolic descriptions of its extent may further stigmatize inmates and elicit punitive responses. Whether infection was acquired within or outside ...

Pharmaceutical Expenditure and Burden of Non-communicable Diseases in Serbia

In the lowand middle-income countries some non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such are cardiac diseases, strokes, chronic lung diseases, certain cancers, and diabetes, tend to overtake the morbidity and mortality of poverty diseases (Adams and Butterly, 2015; Jakovljevic and Getzen, 2016). Such diseases, conditionally labeled as diseases of affluence (Nutrition Health Topics, 2016), are growing ...

NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDs) AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS IN EUROPE