Emerging Issues in Prison Health

Bernice S. Elger  Catherine Ritter is trained as a medical doctor. She currently works as an independent expert in prison health. Her areas of interest are addiction, transmittable diseases and health promotion among prisoners and migrants. Heino Stöver is Director of the Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt am main, Germa-ny. He is President of the German Harm Reduction Umbrella Network (www.akzept.org). He graduated in social sciences and his current research inter-ests are health promotion among vulnerable groups, drug services, and health is-sues in closed settings (HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and drug dependence, health of prison staff).

Introduction; Michael Levy.- Aging Inside: Older Adults in Prison; Adrian J. Hayes.- Supporting Families and Children Living in the Shadow of PrisonersViviane Scheckter.- Death in Custody: Towards an International Framework for Investigation and Prevention; Gloria Gaggioli and Bernice S. Elger.- Sudden Deaths in Police Custody: Analysis of Causes and the Need for Prevention; Christoph G. Birngruber, Reinhard B. Dettmeyer, Sönke Janzen and Bernice S. Elger.- The Continuing Emergence of Art Therapy in Prisons; David E. Gussak.- Spiritual Help During Detention: Specific Responses to Different Stages and Types of Imprisonment; Frank Stüfen.- A Balanced Diet: From Facts to Solutions; Bernice S. Elger.- Doing Gender in Prisons: Sport as a Way of Creating Masculinity; Heino Stöver.- Psychiatric Problems in Prisoners: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention; Annette Opitz-Welke.- Drug Services and Harm Reduction Practice in Prisons; Heino Stöver.- Hepatitis C Viral Infection in Prisons; Geert Robaeys, Amber Arain and Heino Stöver.- Confidentiality in Prison Health Care: A Practical Guide; Bernice S. Elger.- Preventing Human Rights Violations in Prison: The Role of Guidelines; Bernice S. Elger and David M. Shaw.- Immigration Detention and Health in Europe; Barbara Rijk, Caroline Schultz, Roumyana Petrova-Benedict and Mariya Samuilova.- Protection of People in Custody under the International Human Rights Sys-tem: The Case of Interim Measures in the European System; Clara Burbano Herrera.- Prison Staff under Stress: Causes, Consequences and Health Promotion Strategies; Heino Stöver.