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Prisons, hepatitis c and harm minimisation
Prisons, hepatitis c and harm minimisation
dc.contributor.author | Levy, Michael | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Treloar, Carla | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Booker, Norman | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | McDonald, Rodney | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-25T14:54:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-25T14:54:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Australian prisons have been identified as a focus of the ongoing hepatitis C epidemic. Harm minimisation is the major strategy directed to community-based public health measures to control hepatitis C. Harm-minimisation strategies to protect inmates and workers are incompletely and inconsistently applied in Australian prisons. Overseas experience has demonstrated that introducing injecting-equipment exchange programs and professional tattoo parlours in prisons could at least partially reduce the risks of ongoing hepatitis C transmission, and would support prevention and treatment programs. A two-stage approach is suggested: firstly, implementing programs of proven effectiveness consistently across the eight Australian jurisdictions, and, secondly, expanding current initiatives in the light of international ¿best practice¿. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/43990 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ | en_US |
dc.source | Legacy MARC | en_US |
dc.title | Prisons, hepatitis c and harm minimisation | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | en_US |
unsw.accessRights.uri | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb | |
unsw.relation.faculty | Arts Design & Architecture | |
unsw.relation.ispartofissue | 12 | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal | Medical Journal of Australia | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto | 647-649 | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume | 186 | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Levy, Michael | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Treloar, Carla, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Booker, Norman | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | McDonald, Rodney, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.school | Centre for Social Research in Health | * |