Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19

Stuart A Kinner; Jesse T Young; Kathryn Snow; Louise Southalan; Daniel Lopez-Acuña; Carina Ferreira-Borges; Éamonn O'Moore

doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30058-X

Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19

Lancet Public Health. 2020 Apr;5(4):e188-e189. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30058-X. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Authors

Stuart A Kinner¹, Jesse T Young², Kathryn Snow³, Louise Southalan⁴, Daniel Lopez-Acuña⁵, Carina Ferreira-Borges⁶, Éamonn O'Moore⁷

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Adolescent Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; Justice Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; School of Public and Population Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Mater Research Institute-UQ, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: s.kinner@unimelb.edu.au.
² Centre for Adolescent Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; Justice Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
³ Centre for Adolescent Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; Justice Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁴ Justice Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
⁵ Andalusian School of Public Health, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
⁶ Division of Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office) Moscow, Russian Federation.
⁷ National Health & Justice Team, Public Health England, Wellington House, London, United Kingdom.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Chronic Disease
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Guidelines as Topic*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
Prisoners*
Prisons*
Public Health
Public Health Practice
SARS-CoV-2