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The new prison framework will be inflexible, costly and do nothing to ease chronic overcrowding and violence (2017)
Journal Article
Ismail, N., & de Viggiani, N. (2017). The new prison framework will be inflexible, costly and do nothing to ease chronic overcrowding and violence

The Conservative manifesto planned to create a series of legally enforceable standards that prisons, and those who work with inmates, will have to meet. Nasrul Ismail and Nick de Viggiani (University of the West of England) have interviewed 30 prison... Read More about The new prison framework will be inflexible, costly and do nothing to ease chronic overcrowding and violence.

Should we use a direct regulation to implement the Healthy Prisons Agenda in England? A qualitative study among prison key policy makers (2017)
Journal Article
Ismail, N., & de Viggiani, N. (2018). Should we use a direct regulation to implement the Healthy Prisons Agenda in England? A qualitative study among prison key policy makers. Journal of Public Health, 40(3), 598-605. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdx116

© The Author 2017. Background The Healthy Prisons Agenda seeks to reduce prisoners' health risks, balance prisoners' rights with a security regime, ensure equivalent prison health service provisions to community health services, and facilitate the wh... Read More about Should we use a direct regulation to implement the Healthy Prisons Agenda in England? A qualitative study among prison key policy makers.

Why is it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of complex public health interventions in the community? A health economics perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Ismail, N. (2017). Why is it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of complex public health interventions in the community? A health economics perspective. Perspectives in Public Health, 137(4), 206-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913917705591

Health economics is an evolving field. This article considers operationalising the complexities of interventions, evaluation processes and outcomes as well as why, despite various limitations in appraising effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in heal... Read More about Why is it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of complex public health interventions in the community? A health economics perspective.