Should prisoners be immunized against hepatitis B?

M.D. Decker and W. Schaffner

American Journal of Public Health, 1985, vol. 75, issue 10, 1134-1135

Abstract: We would urge public health officials to consider the development, in coordination with correctional authorities, of programs which would offer hepatitis B screening and immunization to those prisoners judged to be at highest risk of infection. Specific funding for such programs must be sought; prison directors cannot be expected to use their limited resources for a program motivated by general public health, rather than correctional, considerations. Such a program would not only prevent the medical and social costs of hepatitis B among the targeted group itself, but may also reduce transmission among the general population of intravenous drug users and society at large.

Date: 1985
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