Corrections for Academic Medicine: The Importance of Using Person-First Language for Individuals Who Have Experienced Incarceration
Autor: | Precious Bedell, Anne C. Spaulding, Marvin So, Stuart A. Kinner, Diane S. Morse, Warren J. Ferguson |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
020205 medical informatics
Social stigma First language media_common.quotation_subject Population Social Stigma Prison 02 engineering and technology Criminology Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Multidisciplinary approach Health care 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education media_common Language education.field_of_study business.industry Prisoners Convict General Medicine business Psychology Delivery of Health Care Criminal justice |
Zdroj: | Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 94(2) |
ISSN: | 1938-808X |
Popis: | This Invited Commentary addresses the use of labels and their impact on people involved in the criminal justice system. There are 2.2 million adults incarcerated in the United States and close to 6.6 million under correctional supervision on any day. Many of these people experience health inequalities and inadequate health care both in and out of correctional facilities. These numbers are reason enough to raise alarm among health care providers and criminal justice researchers about the need to conceptualize better ways to administer health care for these individuals. Using terms like "convict," "prisoner," "parolee," and "offender" to describe these individuals increases the stigma that they already face. The authors propose that employing person-first language for justice-involved individuals would help to reduce the stigma they face during incarceration and after they are released. Coordinated, dignified, and multidisciplinary care is essential for this population given the high rates of morbidity and mortality they experience both in and out of custody and the many barriers that impede their successful integration with families and communities. Academic medicine can begin to address the mistrust that formerly incarcerated individuals often have toward the health care system by using the humanizing labels recommended in this Invited Commentary. |
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