Document 0240
 DOCN  M9590240
 TI    Prisoners' dilemmas--the roles of research in assessing and minimising
       the risks of blood borne communicable disease (BBCD) transmission among
       prisoners.
 DT    9509
 AU    Gaughwin M; Department of Community Medicine, University of Adelaide.
 SO    Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1994 Nov 3-6;6:285 (unnumbered poster).
       Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ASHM6/95291859
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether and how existing research strategies can
       be used to predict BBCD transmission among prisoners. METHODS: Research
       reviews, study designs and research questions from Australia in
       particular, have been examined to assess whether they can be used to
       predict BBCD transmission. RESULTS: There are robust findings that risk
       behaviours occur in prisons and that risky needle use is more prevalent
       than unprotected sexual intercourse. Very few studies have estimated the
       number of risk events per unit time compared to outside prison.
       Understanding the contexts, detail and meaning of sharing injecting
       equipment in prisons for example, and the accessibility of that sort of
       information by existing research strategies are problematic. Data on the
       prevalence of diseases among groups engaging in risk behaviours in
       prisons are not readily available or obtainable. CONCLUSION: A
       contemporary challenge for penal researchers and communities in regard
       to BBCD transmission is to formulate answerable questions based on some
       agreed priorities which take greater account of actual and potential
       suffering than of rhetoric or methodological conservatism.
 DE    Australia  *Blood-Borne Pathogens  Communicable Disease Control
       Communicable Diseases/*TRANSMISSION  *Game Theory  Human
       Prisoners/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  Research  Risk  MEETING ABSTRACT

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