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Journal Article
Health conditions of inmates in Italy
2016
Overview
Background
Several studies have shown that prison is characterized by a higher prevalence of chronic diseases than unconfined settings. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics and health of inmates, focusing on internal diseases.
Methods
We designed a specific clinical record using the Python programming language. We considered all of the diagnoses according to the ICD-9-CM.
Results
Of a total of 17,086 inmates, 15,751 were enrolled in our study (M = 14,835; F = 869), corresponding to 92.2% of the entire inmate population (mean age of 39.6 years). The project involved a total of 57 detention facilities in six Italian regions (for a total of 28% of all detainees in Italy), as counted in a census taken on February 3, 2014. From the entire study sample, 32.5% of prisoners did not present any disorders, while 67.5% suffered from at least one disease. The most frequent pathologies were psychiatric (41.3%), digestive (14.5%), infectious (11.5%), cardiovascular (11.4%), endocrine, metabolic, and immune (8.6%), and respiratory (5.4%).
Conclusion
The findings showed that a large number of detainees were affected by several chronic conditions such as hypertension, dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus, with an unusually high prevalence for such a young population. Therefore, a series of preventive measures is recommended to strengthen the entire care process and improve the health and living conditions of prisoners.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Asthma
/ Chronic Disease - epidemiology
/ Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin dependent)
/ Female
/ Health
/ Health Surveys - statistics & numerical data
/ Humans
/ Inhalers
/ International Classification of Diseases
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Prisoners - statistics & numerical data
/ Prisons
/ Prisons - statistics & numerical data
/ Significant Positive Association
/ Steroids
/ Vaccine
