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This framework focuses on strategies and action steps recommended for health departments to enhance access to testing, quality care, and prevention methods in correctional/incarceration facilities. This resource opines that health departments, which often provide health care in carceral settings or contract private organizations to provide health care, should strengthen health care services for incarcerated people. All people, regardless of whether they are incarcerated, should have immediate access to testing, care, and the ability to protect themselves from disease.
Resource Details
- Population: People Who Are Incarcerated
- Setting/Context of Implementation: Correctional Facility
- Topics of Practice: Policy Change/ Development
- Outcomes of Interest: Advancing Racial Equity
- Level of Evidence: Best
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: Yes
- Social Determinants of Health: Healthcare Access and Quality
- Outside of US: No