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November 2009, Vol 99, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1925
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.174953

LETTERS

PRIOR REPORTS OF MEDICAL PROBLEMS AMONG INMATES

Anne C. Spaulding, MD, MPH and Victoria McCallum, MPH

At the time this letter was written, Anne Spaulding was with and Victoria McCallum was a graduate student at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Anne Spaulding, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322 (e-mail: ASpauld@emory.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

In the article "The Health and Health Care of US Prisoners: Results of a Nationwide Survey," Wilper et al. state, "We are not aware of any study analyzing the prevalence of common chronic conditions or of access to medical and psychiatric care among the incarcerated population as a whole."1(p666) We believe that readers should be aware of L. M. Maruschak's 2006 study, "Medical Problems of Jail Inmates,"2 and her 2008 report, "Medical Problems of Prisoners."3 Also, D. J. James and L. E. Glaze coauthored a study, "Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates," in 2006.4 These 3 publications presented . . . [Full Text]






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