Criminal Justice and Public Health: MRSA and Other Deadly Pathogens
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An estimated 100,000 individuals are killed annually from deadly infectious pathogens after being admitted to American hospitals, regardless of the reason he or she had been admitted to the hospital in the first place.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) advance the idea that most of those infectious deaths were preventable.
Criminal Justice and Public Health: MRSA and Other Deadly Pathogens is an account of the relationship between the quality of public safety services, treatment, and care provided by criminal justice personnel and their collaborative partners (firefighters, hospitals and clinics, and healthcare personnel). The struggle to provide and to receive quality services is, in essence, a struggle for social justice.
Criminal Justice and Public Health: MRSA and Other Deadly Pathogens:
- Is an account of public health organizations toward their fulfillment to assure conditions in which individuals can be healthy in a world invaded by antibiotic resistant mutate strains of bacteria and viruses.
- Provides evidence revealing that individuals of the lower social economic class most often intersect with the justice community and their collaborative partners. Generally those same individuals experience poor healthcare, tend to be less healthy than others for a variety of reasons, and once confined are more likely to be exposed and contaminated by infectious diseases placing prisoners and correctional personnel at risk.
- Is an account of people and tribes; it is a description of bureaucratic hierarchies and social class, and American greed; it’s a story about the haves and the have-nots and the unintentional agenda of the Power Elite and their sophisticated approach to saving mankind from itself resulting in mass incarceration, criminalization policies, and punitive enforcement strategies that haven’t changed the color of crime.
- Ignites your imagination, attacks your peace of mind, and will lead to some anxious but worthy debates in the classroom and at home.
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