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Weight Change during Incarceration: Groundwork for a Collaborative Health Intervention
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 3, August 2016
- pp. 1567-1576
- 10.1353/hpu.2016.0144
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Abstract
Abstract:
In the context of the ever increasing incarcerated population in the U.S. and a lack of data documenting weight status of this population, we document the weight status of male inmates in a unified correctional facility in Rhode Island using BMI and waist circumference. This needs assessment describes the characteristics of men most at risk of weight gain and elevated disease risk associated with their weight status in order to build the groundwork for a collaborative health intervention.
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