Clients in correctional settings have unique considerations for care. Providing care in a correctional setting has implications for the client population health as environmental conditions and behaviors in correctional facilities:
1. Can spread communicable diseases.
2. Are well-suited for health promotion interventions.
3. Decrease the potential for communicable disease transmission.
4. Eliminate unhealthy lifestyle behaviors.
Answer: 1
Explanation: 1. Many correctional facilities are overcrowded and essentially unhealthy environments. Such places can spread communicable diseases among the inmate population and potentially provide a cause of spread in the general population when an inmate is released. Health promotion can occur in correctional facilities but the environment is not well-suited for this given its purpose and nature. Conditions and behaviors in correctional facilities contribute to potential communicable disease transmission; they do not decrease it. Lifestyle behaviors can be curtailed to a degree within correctional facilities, but unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are not totally eliminated.
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