End of Life Care in the Prison Environment: Updated August 1, 2022 373.14 KB

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‘End of Life Care in the Prison Environment’ provides a representative sample of articles, reports, etc., published in the literature and in the news media during the past five years (2018-2022) Although a universal public health issue, it is in the United States that most interest and attention has been afforded the aging and the terminally ill prison population.

This backgrounder begins with a selection of articles by way of a broad overview of the issue, followed by additional articles, etc., (in descending order of publication) that offer a national and (in the U.S.) state-by- state overview. This is followed by a list of articles, etc., from a variety of sources on end-of-life care in the prison systems in, for example, Australia, Canada, China, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and the U.K.

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