ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2020
Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971-2015.
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- Structural racism and health: Assessing the mediating role of community mental distress and health care access in the association between mass incarceration and adverse birth outcomes.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- COVID-19 and European carcerality: Do national prison policies converge when faced with a pandemic?Punishment & society · 2022Article
- The relationship between community public health, behavioral health service accessibility, and mass incarceration.BMC health services research · 2022Article
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- Differences in Hospitalization and Inpatient Death Patterns by Incarceration Status in 31 US Jurisdictions, 2021.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
rationaleIncarceration carries several negative ramifications for population health, while diverting scarce resources from other public goods. At a time when health care systems around the world are strained, the current study investigates the long-term relationship between incarceration and health care infrastructure.
objectiveWe investigated the longitudinal association between incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita for 36 countries between 1971 and 2015.
methodFixed effects regression analyses were employed to examine the effect of within-country changes in incarceration rates on hospital beds per capita.
resultsFindings demonstrated that increases in national incarceration rates over time were associated with declines in hospital beds per capita, net of controls for socio-demographic and economic factors.
conclusionsIncreased incarceration negatively impacts hospital bed availability at the cross-national level.
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