tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Reconsidering the public health failings of the criminal justice system: a reflection on the case of Scott Ortiz"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Reconsidering the public health failings of the criminal justice system: a reflection on the case of Scott Ortiz | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Reconsidering the public health failings of the criminal justice system a reflection on the case of Scott Ortiz Thomas Kerr 1 2 Open Access Address British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS St. Paul s Hospital 608-1081 Burrard Street Vancouver BC V6Z 1Y6 Canada and 2Department of Medicine University of British Columbia 3300-950 West 10th Avenue Vancouver BC V5Z 4E3 Canada Email Thomas Kerr - tkerr@ Corresponding author Published 15 August 2006 Received 27 July 2006 Accepted 15 August 2006 Harm Reduction Journal 2006 3 25 doi 1477-7517-3-25 This article is available from http content 3 1 25 2006 Kerr licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Throughout most of the world the primary response to the health and social impacts of illicit drug use has been to intensify the enforcement of drug laws. The consequences of this policy approach include an unprecedented growth in prison populations and increasing concerns regarding drug-related harms within prisons and without including increased risk of HIV and hepatitis C HCV infection. This has led to calls from public health and prisoner advocacy groups to prison authorities to improve health services available in the community and those available to prisoners. While considerable progress has been made with respect to the growing implementation of HIV and HCV prevention measures within some nations prisons the case of Scott Ortiz illuminates a new set of challenges for prisoners and their advocates as judges often have a faulty understanding of public health arguments and data. In this case