Journal of Correctional Health Care
Article Abstracts

Article Abstracts

The articles listed below are from Volume 11, Issue 4, through Volume 9, Issue 1. To see the abstracts for a particular issue, click on the heading for that issue. For articles from Volume 12, please visit JCHC at Sage Journals Online, http://jchc.sagepub.com.

Volume 11, Issue 4

· Improving End-of-life Care of Prisoners
   Susan Franzel Levine, MD, MPH

· Juvenile Correctional Workers’ Perceptions of Suicide Risk Factors
   and Mental Health Issues of Incarcerated Juveniles
   Joseph V. Penn, MD, CCHP; Christianne Esposito, PhD;
   L. A. R. Stein, PhD; Molly Lacher-Katz, BA; Anthony Spirito, PhD

· Hepatitis C Service Delivery in Prisons: Peer Education From the “Guys in Blue”
   Corrine E. Munoz-Plaza, MPH; Shiela M. Strauss, PhD; Janetta M. Astone, PhD;
   Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD; Holly Hagan, PhD

Position Statements of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care: 2005 Updates
· Administrative Management of HIV in Correctional Facilities
· Licensed Health Care Providers in Correctional Institutions
· Women’s Health Care in Correctional Settings

Volume 11, Issue 3

· Managed Mental Health Care in Large Jails: Empirical Outcomes on Cost and Quality
   Steven A. Szykula, PhD; Dawn F. Jackson, PhD

· Prevalence of Medical and Mental Health Conditions That Warrant Discharge Planning
   in a Medium-Sized County Jail
   Mark R. Johnston, MD, MPH

· Integration of Telemedicine Practice Into Correctional Medicine: An Evolving Standard
   Charles R. Doarn, MBA; Debbie Justis, RN, MSHA; Muhammad S. Chaudhri, MD;
   Ronald C. Merrell, MD, FACS

· HIV Counseling and Testing Program for Female Inmates: Analysis of Data From the
   Harris County Jail
   Raul I. Carvajal, DrPH, CCHP; Michael W. Ross, PhD, MPH; Theresa Byrd, DrPH;
   Andrea Shelton, PhD; Regina Jones Johnson, DrPH, MSN, RN*
   * Dr. Johnson’s name was inadvertently omitted from the article as originally published.

· Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Correctional Health Care
   Kiran Yalamanchili, MD, CCHP; Sunil Babu, MD, CCHP; Rishi Sukhija, MD

· Methadone Maintenance in a Men’s Prison in Puerto Rico: A Pilot Program
   Robert Heimer, PhD; Holly Catania, JD; John A. Zambrano; Arlyn Brunet, MS;
   Arturo Marti Ortiz, PhD; Robert G. Newman, MD, MPH

Volume 11, Issue 2

· Correctional Facilities as Community Health Clinical Placement Sites for RN to BSN Students
   Andrea Kovalesky, RN, CARN, PhD

· Should Female Federal Inmates Be Screened for Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infection?
   Sara B. Newman, MCP, DrPH; Michael B. Nelson, DO; Heidi B. Friedman, PhD;
   Charlotte A. Gaydos, MS, DrPH

· Caring and Custody: Two Faces of the Same Reality
   Mary Katharine Maroney, PhD, RN

· Sex and Prisoners: Criminal Justice Contributions to a Public Health Issue
   Roberto Hugh Potter, PhD, CCHP; Richard Tewksbury, PhD

· The Potential Use of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) for the Treatment of HIV-positive
    Individuals Being Released From Prison
   Arlene The; Jennifer A. Mitty, MD, MPH; Helen Loewenthal, MSW; Lauri B. Bazerman, MS;
   Timothy Flanigan, MD

· Cost of Hepatitis C Treatment in the Correctional Setting
  Joseph Paris, PhD, MD, CCHP; Monica M. Pradhan, BS, MNS; Scott Allen, MD, CCHP;
  William M. Cassidy, MD

Volume 11, Issue 1

· Profiling Mentally Disordered Prison Inmates: A Case Studyin New Jersey
   Nancy Wolff, PhD; Tina Maschi, PhD, LCSW, ACSW; J. R. Bjerklie, MA

· “Well Enough to Execute”: The Health Professional’s Responsibility to the Death Row Inmate
   Eugene V. Boisaubin, MD; Alexander G. Duarte, MD; Patricia Blair, JD, LLM, RN; 
   T. Howard Stone, JD, LLM

· Gender-Specific Health Education in the Juvenile Justice System
   Patricia J. Kelly, PhD, MPH, RN, FNP; Elisabeth Martinez, BA; Martha Medrano, MD

· Knowledge Is Not Always Power: HIV Risk Behavior and the Perception of Risk Among 
   Women Prisoners
   Janet L. Mullings, PhD; James W. Marquart, PhD; Tara Carr, MA; Deborah J. Hartley, MS

· Chlamydia Prevalence Among Adolescent Females and Males in Juvenile Detention Facilities
   in California
   Maggie Chartier; Laura Packel, MPH; Heidi M. Bauer, MD, MS, MPH; Monique Brammeier;
   Malaika Little; Gail Bolan, MD

· Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Among Long-Term Jail Inmates
  Christopher H. Hayden; Bonita T. Mangura, MD; Ileen Channer, RN, BSN; 
  G. Elaine Patterson, EdD; Marian R. Passannante, PhD; Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, FCCP

Volume 10, Issue 4 — Winter 2004

· The Performance-Based Standard: Implications for Juvenile Health Care
   David W. Roush, PhD, LPC

· Lower Genital Tract Infections Among HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative Incarcerated
   Women: A Mandate for Screening and Treatment in Prisons
   Catherine Remollino, MD; Heidi W. Brown, BA; Jennifer Adelson-Mitty, MD; Jennifer Clarke,
   MD; Anne Spaulding, MD; Lori Boardman, MD; Timothy P. Flanigan, MD; Susan Cu-Uvin, MD

· Prevalence and Indicators of Chlamydia trachomatis Among Men Entering Massachusetts
   Correctional Facilities: Policy Implications
   Meeta S. Nguyen, MD, MPH; Sylvie Ratelle, MD, MPH; Yuren Tang, MD, MPH; Michael
   Whelan, BS, MS; Paul Etkind, DrPH; Thomas Lincoln, MD; William Dumas, RN

· Sending Medical Students to Prison—Integrating Correctional Medicine Into the Larger Public
   Health System: A Symposium in Three Parts
   William J. Rold, JD, CCHP-A, Guest Editor

· Developing a Correctional Medicine Rotation for Medical Students
  David L. Thomas, MD, JD; Anthony J. Silvagni, DO, PharmD; James Howell, MD, MPH

· The Corrections Perspective
  David L. Thomas, MD, JD; Dianne Rechtine, MD

· The Student Perspective
  Noah Lee, MD

Volume 10, Issue 3 — Fall 2003
Special issue: Inmate Reentry and Public Health

· Preface
   Jeremy Travis, JD, MPA, and Anna S. Sommers, PhD

· Prison Health Services: An Overview
   B. Jaye Anno, PhD, CCHP-A

· Health Profile of the State Prison Population and Returning Offenders: Public Health Challenges
   Lois M. Davis, PhD; Sharon Pacchiana, FNP

· Linkages Between In-Prison and Community-Based Health Services
   Cheryl Roberts, MPA; Sofia Kennedy, MPH; Theodore M. Hammett, PhD

· Community Health Services for Returning Jail and Prison Inmates
   Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH

· What is Known About the Cost-Effectiveness of Health Services for Returning Prisoners?
   Embry M. Howell, PhD; Robert B. Greifinger, MD; Anna S. Sommers, PhD

· Insiders as Outsiders: Race, Gender, and Cultural Considerations Affecting Health Outcome
   After Release to the Community
   Raymond F. Patterson, MD; Robert B. Greifinger, MD

· Dynamics of Social Capital of Prisoners and Community Reentry: Ties That Bind?
   Nancy Wolff, PhD, and Jeffrey Draine, PhD

Volume 10, Issue 2 — Summer 2003

· Psychological Distress, Prisoner Characteristics, and System Experience in a Prison
   Population
   William T. Edwards, MA; Roberto Hugh Potter, PhD

· Evaluation of an HIV Peer Education Program in Texas Prisons
   Deborah P. Scott, MPH; Amy Jo Harzke, MPH; Michael B. Mizwa; Michael Pugh, PhD; 
   Michael W. Ross, PhD, MPH

· Physical Health of Women in Prison: Relationship to Oppression
   Michele J. Eliason, PhD, RN; Janette Y. Taylor, PhD, RN; Rachel Williams, PhD

· Breast Cancer and Women in Prison: Preventive Attitudes and Risk Factors
   Anjali Mascarenhas Noble, DO; Sonia A. Alemagno, PhD

· Low Sensitivity of the Leukocyte Esterase Test (LET) in Detecting Chlamydia trachomatis
   Infections in Asymptomatic Men Entering a County Jail
   Sylvie Ratelle, MD, MPH; Meeta S. Nguyen, MD, MPH; Yuren Tang, MD, MPH; 
   Michael Whelan, BS, MS; Paul Etkind, DrPH; Thomas Lincoln, MD; William Dumas

· Drug Switching: The Bottom Line Isn’t Always What It Seems
   David L. Whaley, PharmD; Curtis M. Warren, RPh; David L. Thomas, MD, JD

· Understanding Health Care Utilization in Custody: Situation of Canadian Penitentiaries
   Dominique Robert, PhD

· Juvenile Correctional System Health Care Cost: A Five-Year Comparison
   Debra H. Tennyson, PhD

Volume 10, Issue 1 — Spring 2003

· The Association of Infectious Disease Diagnoses With Incarceration-related Factors Among
   Prison Inmates
  Jacques Baillargeon, PhD; Patrick Bradshaw, MS

· A Concept Analysis of Professional Autonomy: A Correctional Nursing Perspective
  Sue Smith, BSN, RN, CCHP

· Individual Educational Sessions and Inmate Follow-up for Latent Tuberculosis Infection
  Treatment After Jail Release—A Pilot Study
  Mark R. Johnston, MD, MPH; Virginia Cronin, MS, RN, NP; Margaret Wells, MS, RN, NP; 
  Sanju Johri, PhD

· Mental Health Services in Kentucky Jails: A Self Report by Jailers
  Daniel W. Phillips, III, PhD; Carrie G. Mercke, MSSW

· An Evaluation of Cholesterol Management Within a State Correctional System
  Judith E. LaForest, RPh, MS; Thomas W. Algozzine, PharmD, BCPS

· The High Cost of Health Care Within the Juvenile Justice System
  Debra H. Tennyson, PhD

· Weight Lifting in Prisons: A Survey and Recommendations
  John Amtmann, EdD; Don Berryman, MS; Robert Fisher

Volume 9, Issue 4 — Winter 2003

· Effect of Co-Payment on the Use of Medical Services by Male and Female Prisoners
  Roberta Hyde, PhD, RN; Beverly Brumfield, MS, RN

· Screening for Health Conditions in a County Jail: Differences by Gender
  Meredith C. LaVene, MS, FNP; Mary C. White, MPH, PhD; Catherine M. Waters, RN, PhD;
  Jacqueline P. Tulsky, MD

· Predictors of Placement on a Jail Mental Health Unit: Assessing Equitable Access to Care
  Diane S. Young, PhD, MSW

· Clinical Challenges in a Prison Rheumatology Referral Practice
  Scott T. Anderson, MD, PhD; Joseph Bick, MD; Deborah Harriss, NP

· Applying Cost Containment to a Public Correctional Medicine System
  Richard M. Garden, MD; Blitch H. Shuman, RN; Michelle S. Buswell, RN; Steve J. Caverley,
  LCSW; Frank M. Rees, PhD

· CDC/HRSA HIV/AIDS Intervention, Prevention, and Continuity of Care Demonstration Project for
   Incarcerated Individuals Within Correctional Settings and the Community

— Part I, A Description of Corrections Demonstration Project Activities
    Alyssa G. Robillard, PhD; James E. Garner, MA; Franklin N. Laufer, PhD; Asia Ramadan,
    MPH; Thomas A. Barker, MPH; Barbara S. Devore, MPA; Janet J. Myers, PhD, MPH; Jeff
    Porterfield, PhD; Priscilla H. Wood, BS

— Part II, Implementation Issues During Years One and Two
    Janet J. Myers, PhD, MPH; Thomas A. Barker, MPH; Barbara S. Devore, MPA; James E. 
    Garner, MA; Franklin N. Laufer, PhD; Jeff Porterfield, PhD; Asia Ramadan, MPH; Alyssa G.
    Robillard, PhD; Priscilla H. Wood, BS

Volume 9, Issue 3 — Fall 2002

· Periodontal Disease: Systemic Risk Factors
  Mark Livingston, DDS; Douglas Parsell, PhD; Stephen Pollack, DDS, MS

· Cigarette Smoking Prevalence Among Detained Aliens
  Jeffrey L. Derry, NP-C, MS; Michael Bendert, PA-C; Maurice Sheehan, NP, MBA, MSN

· Women’s Needs After Release From Prison to a Rural Community
  Ryan Lund, MPH; Roberta Hyde, PhD, RN; Diane Kempson, PhD; Pamela Clark, PhD, RN

· Dental Health Care of Prison Populations
  Nicholas S. Makrides, DMD, MA, MPH; Jay D. Schulman, DMD, MA, MSPH

· Wardens’ Attitudes Toward Conjugal Visitation Programs
  Christopher Hensley, PhD; Richard Tewksbury, PhD; Chau-Pu Chiang, PhD

· A Comprehensive Analysis of Suicide in Federal Prisons: A 15-Year Review
  Thomas W. White, PhD; Dennis J. Schimmel, PhD; Robert Frickey

· HIPAA in State Correctional Systems
  Debi Orr; David Hellerstein, MD, PhD

Volume 9, Issue 2 — Summer 2002
End-of-Life Care in Corrections: A Special Symposium

· Introduction
  William J. Rold, JD, CCHP-A, Special Editor

· Dying Well in Corrections: Why Should We Care?
  Ira Byock, MD

· Terminally Ill Offenders: An International Dialogue
  Joseph O’Neill, MD, MPH; Mohammad Akhter, MD, MPH; Lucie Poliquin, BScN, MBA

· The Birth of a Prison Hospice Program
  William Cahal, RN, BS, CCHP

· Managing Pain and End-of-Life Care for Inmate Patients: The California Medical Facility
  Experience
  Joseph A. Bick, MD, CCHP

· Controversies in Correctional End-of-Life Care
  Elizabeth Craig; Margaret Ratcliff, MSW

· Easing the Passage: The Chaplain’s View of Prison Hospice
  Robert Craig

· Grief and Hospice Care for the Correctional Community: Training, Nurturing, and Mentoring 
  of Staff
  Phyllis B. Taylor, RN, BA, CGF

Volume 9, Issue 1 — Spring 2002

· Paving the Way to Nurse Case Management in the Prison Setting: Development of 
  a Research Instrument
  Elaine M. Hooper, MSN, ANP, CS, CCHP

· Guidelines for Suicide Assessment: A Protocol for Addressing Clinical and Legal Concerns
  Thomas W. White, PhD

· Mental Health Clinical Pathways
  Stanley Ridlen, RN, BSN, MBA; Chad Barr

· Outpatient Orthopedics and the Impact of Telemedicine Upon Costs and Patient Care
  Richard M. Garden, MD

· Dental Health Status, Unmet Needs, and Utilization of Services in a Cohort of Adult Felons
  at Admission and After Three Years Incarceration
  James H. Clare, DDS, MPH

· Management of Tuberculosis in the Texas Prison System
  Jacques Baillargeon, PhD; Michael Kelley, MD, MPH; Michael J. Lichtenstein, MD, MSc; 
  Hal B. Jenson, MD; Lannette Linthicum, MD

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