HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF INMATES OF CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS Position Paper of the AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
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The American College of Physicians is developing a series of position papers addressing the health care needs of medically underserved populations. This paper identifies prisoners in correctional institutions as a medically underserved group, clarifies some of the causes of and possible solutions to the problem of providing adequate correctional health care, and focuses on the role of internists and other health care professionals in addressing the issues.
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