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Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015

Rationale. Incarceration carries several negative ramifications for population health, while diverting scarce resources from other public goods. At a time when health care systems around the world are strained, the current study investigates the long-term relationship between incarceration and healt...

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Autores principales: Testa, Alexander, Rennó Santos, Mateus, Weiss, Douglas B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7398037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32784099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113262
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description Rationale. Incarceration carries several negative ramifications for population health, while diverting scarce resources from other public goods. At a time when health care systems around the world are strained, the current study investigates the long-term relationship between incarceration and health care infrastructure. Objective. We investigated the longitudinal association between incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita for 36 countries between 1971 and 2015. Method. Fixed effects regression analyses were employed to examine the effect of within-country changes in incarceration rates on hospital beds per capita. Results. Findings demonstrated that increases in national incarceration rates over time were associated with declines in hospital beds per capita, net of controls for socio-demographic and economic factors. Conclusions. Increased incarceration negatively impacts hospital bed availability at the cross-national level.
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spelling pubmed-73980372020-08-04 Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015 Testa, Alexander Rennó Santos, Mateus Weiss, Douglas B. Soc Sci Med Short Communication Rationale. Incarceration carries several negative ramifications for population health, while diverting scarce resources from other public goods. At a time when health care systems around the world are strained, the current study investigates the long-term relationship between incarceration and health care infrastructure. Objective. We investigated the longitudinal association between incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita for 36 countries between 1971 and 2015. Method. Fixed effects regression analyses were employed to examine the effect of within-country changes in incarceration rates on hospital beds per capita. Results. Findings demonstrated that increases in national incarceration rates over time were associated with declines in hospital beds per capita, net of controls for socio-demographic and economic factors. Conclusions. Increased incarceration negatively impacts hospital bed availability at the cross-national level. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7398037/ /pubmed/32784099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113262 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
title Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
title_full Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
title_fullStr Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
title_full_unstemmed Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
title_short Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
title_sort incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: a cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7398037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32784099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113262
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