The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric...

In this draft we describe our TAC submissions and post-TAC experiments for Automated Evaluation of Summaries of Peers task of Text Analysis Conference (TAC). We approached the problem using two different approaches. Firstly, we use a generative modeling based approach to capture the sentence level presence of keywords in peer summaries and provide two fairly simple alternatives to identify keyw...

Little is known about the effectiveness of treatments for severe personality disorder in prisons. Any treatment within the prison context will aim to reduce criminogenic risk in its participants, as well as ameliorate the overall symptomatology of the disorder. The over-representation of Borderline Personality Disorder in female prisons has lead to pilots of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in thr...

Prisons are a unique context where nurses are required to have specific skills to ensure that prisoners receive the same type of holistic care as anyone else out of prison, including spiritual care. This discussion paper focuses on understanding how nurses deliver spiritual care in Italian prisons where there are often limited resources and where organizational priorities hinder the provision o...

Patterns of incorrect answering or “misconception-like” responses to scientific concept questions have been well documented. Here we investigate both response choices and response times to gain insight into the nature of misconception-like responses. In a series of experiments involving questions on graphs in which participants must compare the slopes of two points, we find that students answer...

INTRODUCTION Data show that 92.5% of prison inmates report drug or alcohol use. In spite of this, only 2% of dual diagnosis research has been carried out in the prison context. Therefore, the aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to analyze the profiles of dual diagnosis in a Spanish prison and test the feasibility of two assessment instruments. METHOD The sample was made up of 15...

context aboriginal and torres strait islanders (aboriginal) account for approximately 3% of the australian population. they have the poorest health, economic and social outcomes. higher notification rates of hepatitis c antibodies (anti-hcv) have been reported among aboriginal compared with non-aboriginal people. the identification of aboriginal people in national surveillance has some weakness...