Universal health coverage and incarceration

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作者：

Winkelman, Tyler N. A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Dasrath, Kayla C. ^{[3
]}

Young, Jesse T. ^{[4
,5
,6
,7
]}

Kinner, Stuart A. ^{[4
,5
,8
,9
]}

机构：

[1] Hennepin Healthcare, Dept Med, Gen Internal Med, Minneapolis, MN 55415 USA

[2] Hennepin Healthcare Res Inst, Hlth Homelessness & Criminal Justice Lab, Minneapolis, MN USA

[3] Univ Minnesota, Sch Med, Woodwinds Hosp, Family Med Residency Program, St Paul, MN 55108 USA

[4] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Sch Populat & Global Hlth, Ctr Hlth Equ, Justice Hlth Unit, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

[5] Murdoch Childrens Res Inst, Ctr Adolescent Hlth, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

[6] Univ Western Australia, Sch Populat & Global Hlth, Perth, WA, Australia

[7] Curtin Univ, Natl Drug Res Inst, Perth, WA, Australia

[8] Curtin Univ, Sch Populat Hlth, Perth, WA, Australia

[9] Griffith Univ, Griffith Criminol Inst, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

来源：

LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH | 2022年 / 7卷 / 06期

关键词：

PRISON; CARE;

D O I：

暂无

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Global progress towards universal coverage of essential health services, a component of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.8, is measured at the country level using the WHO Service Coverage Index. However, data collection for this crucial metric excludes prisons and youth detention centres, despite the health needs in these settings, chronic underinvestment in custodial health care, and poor health outcomes for people released from custody in most countries. Particularly in countries with high incarceration rates, failure to include custodial settings in calculations of the service coverage index might result in overestimation of progress towards SDG 3.8.1, and mask important health inequalities. In this Viewpoint, we explore how failure to consider custodial settings in calculation of the service coverage index contributes to health inequalities and impedes progress towards SDG 3. We recommend explicitly considering all custodial settings in future estimates of progress towards universal health coverage.

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页码：E569 / E572

页数：4