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Unhealthy prisons: Exploring structural determinants of prison health (2007)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N. (2007). Unhealthy prisons: Exploring structural determinants of prison health. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(1), 115-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00474.x

Prisoner health is influenced as much by structural determinants (institutional, environmental, political, economic and social) as it is by physical and mental constitutions of prisoners themselves. Prison health may therefore be better understood wi... Read More about Unhealthy prisons: Exploring structural determinants of prison health.