TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This review integrates and builds linkages among existing theoretical and empirical literature from across disciplines to further broaden our understanding of the relationship between inequality, imprisonment, and health for black men. The review examines the health impact of prisons through an ecological theoretical perspective to understand how factors at multiple levels of the social ecology interact with prisons to potentially contribute to deleterious health effects and the exacerbation of race/ethnic health disparities.This review finds that there are documented health disparities between inmates and non-inmates, but the casual mechanisms explaining this relationship are not well-understood. Prisons may interact with other societal systems – such as the family (microsystem), education, and healthcare systems (meso/exosystems), and systems of racial oppression (macrosystem) – to influence individual and population health.The review also finds that research needs to move the discussion of the race effects in health and crime/justice disparities beyond the mere documentation of such differences toward a better understanding of their causes and effects at the level of individuals, communities, and other social ecologies.
VL  - 20
SN  - 978-1-78635-051-0, 978-1-78635-052-7/0195-7449
DO  - 10.1108/S0195-744920180000020002
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0195-744920180000020002
AU  - Nowotny Kathryn M.
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - A Social Ecological Framework of Inmate Health: Implications for Black–White Health Disparities
T2  - Inequality, Crime, and Health Among African American Males
T3  - Research in Race and Ethnic Relations
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 7
EP  - 34
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -