Women’s health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice
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Women's health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice.
Correspondence to Brenda J van den Bergh ([email protected]). The needs of women held in detention have received little attention and continue to be neglected by health systems and prison authorities. One reason for this, too readily accepted until now, is that women prisoners are a clear minority group within prisons all over the world. It is only recently that attention has been drawn to the f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.09.066928