MEDICAL ADVOCATES
 Prisoners
  Health Risk Behaviors

 Risk Behaviors: General
 Substance Use/Abuse
 Mental Illness
Tattoo Needles
Violence




 
 Prison Healthcare Main Page

Home Page

 i
Last Update:  July 05, 2008  
 Files identified with this icon are in Portable Document Format (PDF) and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader 5
Risk Behavior: General
 
     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
The relationship among marijuana use, prior incarceration, and inmates' self-reported
HIV/AIDS risk behaviors.
Braithwaite R, Stephens T, Conerly RC, et al
Addict Behav. 2004 Jul;29(5):995-9.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV and risk factors in entrants to
Irish prisonsa national cross sectional survey.
Long J, Allwright S, Barry J, et al.
BMJ 2001 Nov
Paper

Male prisoners and HIV prevention: a call for action ignored.
Braithwaite RL, Arriola KR.
Am J Public Health. 2003 May;93(5):759-63.
Abstract
   
  Survey of risk behaviour and HIV prevalence in an English prison.
Edwards A, Curtis S, Sherrard J.
Int J STD AIDS 1999 Jul;10(7):464-6
 Abstract
   
  A survey of bloodborne viruses and associated risk behaviours in Greek prisons.
Malliori M, Sypsa V, Psichogiou M, et al.
Addiction 1998 Feb;93(2):243-51     
Abstract
   
  Hepatitis B and C in New South Wales prisons: prevalence and risk factors.
Butler TG, Dolan KA, Ferson MJ 
Med J Aust 1997 Feb 3;166(3):127-30
 Abstract
   
  Risk behaviours of inmates in south-eastern France.
Rotily M, Galinier-Pujol A, Vernay-Vaisse C. et al.
AIDS Care 1995;7 Suppl 1:S89-93
 Abstract
   
  HIV testing, HIV infection and associated risk factors among inmates in south-eastern
French prisons.
Rotily M, Galinier-Pujol A, Obadia Y, et al.
AIDS 1994 Sep;8(9):1341-4
 Abstract
Substance Use/Abuse
 
     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Effect of methadone treatment on incarceration rates among injection drug users.
Werb D, Kerr T, Marsh D, et al  
Eur Addict Res. 2008;14(3):143-9.
Abstract
 
A pilot survey of attitudes and knowledge about opioid substitution therapy for HIV-infected prisoners.
Springer SA, Bruce RD.   
J Opioid Manag. 2008 Mar-Apr;4(2):81-6.
 Abstract
 
Prior opiate injection and incarceration history predict injection drug use among inmates.
Calzavara LM, Burchell AN, Schlossberg J, et al;
Addiction. 2003 Sep;98(9):1257-65
 Abstract

The interrelationship between violence, HIV/AIDS, and drug use in incarcerated women.
Harris RM, Sharps PW, Allen K , et al.
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 2003 Jan-Feb;14(1):27-40
 Abstract

   
  Association between heroin use, needle sharing and tattoos received in prison with hepatitis B and
C positivity among street- recruited injecting drug users in New Mexico, USA.
Samuel MC, Doherty PM, Bulterys M, Jenison SA.
 Epidemiol Infect 2001  Dec;127(3):475-84
Abstract
   
  A comparison between on-site immunoassay drug-testing devices and laboratory results. 
Gronholm M, Lillsunde P
 Forensic Sci Int 2001 Sep 15;121(1-2):37-46
 Abstract
   
  Examining the substance use patterns and treatment needs of incarcerated sex offenders.
Peugh J, Belenko S.
Sex Abuse 2001 Jul;13(3):179-195
 Abstract
   
  Predictive factors of HIV-infection in injecting drug users upon incarceration.
Martin V, Cayla JA, Moris ML, Alonso LE, Perez R
J Epidemiol 1998 Jun;14(4):327-31  
Abstract
   
  HIV risk behavior in prison and factors associated with reincarceration of injection drug users.
Rotily M, Delorme C, Galinier A, et al.
Presse Med 2000 Sep 30;29(28):1549-56
Abstract
Tattoo Needles
 

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
 
Prison inmates' intention to demand that bleach be used for cleaning tattooing and piercing
equipment.
Gagnon H, Godin G, Alary M, et al 
Can J Public Health. 2007 Jul-Aug;98(4):297-300.
 Abstract
 
Tattooing in prisons-Not such a pretty picture.
Hellard ME, Aitken CK, Hocking JS.
Am J Infect Control. 2007 Sep;35(7):477-80.
 Abstract

Association between heroin use, needle sharing and tattoos received in prison with
hepatitis B and C positivity among street-recruited injecting drug users in New Mexico,
USA.
Samuel MC, Doherty PM, Bulterys M, Jenison SA.
 Epidemiol Infect 2001 Dec;127(3):475-84
Abstract

 
     
  Acute hepatitis C virus infection in an Australian prison inmate:tattooing as a possible
transmission route
Post JJ, Dolan KA, Whybin LR, et al..
Med J Aust 2001 Feb 19;174(4):183-4.
Abstract 		 
     
  Hepatitis C transmission through tattooing: a case report.
Thompson SC, Hernberger F, Wale E.  
Aust N Z J Public Health 1996 Jun;20(3):317-
Abstract		  
     
  Prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus and association with  intravenous drug
abuse and tattooing in a national prison in Norway.
Holsen DS, Harthug S, Myrmel H.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1993 Sep;12(9):673-6
 Abstract
 		  

     Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Poster
 
  Is body art worth a life sentence? Safer tattooing for HIV + persons in prisons
W A Campbell, T Howard
 (15IAC)
 Abstract   
 Mental Illness 
 

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
  Ethnic differences in prisoners: 2: Risk factors and psychiatric service use.
Coid J, Petruckevitch A, Bebbington P, et al.
Br J Psychiatry 2002 Dec;181(6):481-487
 Abstract		  

 

 Prison Healthcare Main Page

Home Page

 i

Prison Healthcare Risk Factors