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• Women’s health in prison: Action guidance and checklists to review current policies and practices
  The checklists in this document are an important tool in ensuring greater safety and better quality medical care for women in prison, and are designed to assist a review of current policies and practices relating to women’s health in prisons.
• Prevention of acute drug-related mortality in prison populations during the immediate post-release period
  The rate of acute drug-related mortality, or overdose deaths, among prisoners immediately after their release is unacceptably high. Substance dependence is a chronic disorder with high relapse rates, and often requires long-term continuous treatment. Trials and cohort studies give good evidence that opioid substitution treatment reduces the risk of overdose among opioid users.This report identifies the main areas that need to be improved to decrease the risk of overdose death.
• The Madrid Recommendation: Health protection in prisons as an essential part of public health
  Health protection in prisons as an essential part of public health. The document is available in four languages: English, French, German and Russian.
• Women’s health in prison. Correcting gender inequity in prison health
  At the request of the Member States involved, the WHO Health in Prisons Project, together with partner organizations and experts and with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Quaker Council for European Affairs, the Quaker United Nations Office, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the AIDS Foundation East-West and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, has reviewed all issues affecting women’s health in the criminal justice system and has especially considered the gross inequities in women’s health in prisons.
• Trencin statement on prisons and mental health
  The delegates present at the joint World Health Organization/Slovakia International Meeting on Prison Health and Public Health, held in Trencín, Slovakia on 18 October 2007, took as the basis of their discussions the fundamental international standards relating to the need for the provision of health care to those with mental health problems in prison.
• Health in prisons. A WHO guide to the essentials in prison health
  Based on the experience of many countries in the WHO European Region and the advice of experts, this guide outlines some of the steps prison systems should take to reduce the public health risks from compulsory detention in often unhealthy situations, to care for prisoners in need and to promote the health of prisoners and prison staff. This requires that everyone working in prisons understand how imprisonment affects health, what prisoners' health needs are and how evidence-based health services can be provided for everyone needing treatment, care and prevention in prison.

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