Vulnerable Populations: Incarcerated Persons

3. What geographic area is the population of focus based within. ______ County
5. A store within the correctional facility that inmates are able to use to purchase products from.
6. What percentage of individuals living in Putnam County are living in poverty?
7. Someone who the facility believes is a trustful person and is granted work privileges.
10. ________ Disparities; Differences in the quantity of disease, burden of disease, and other adverse health conditions present in different groups.
11. Involuntarily confined and their freedom, along with movements, are restricted as a consequence of criminal behavior.
14. Healthcare objectives that have been expanded to help eliminate health disparities so that individuals in the community can effectively reach and maintain holistic wellness.
15. Besides being incarcerated what other characteristic must be present to constitute membership of this vulnerable population.

1. Being ________ predisposes members to adverse health risk.
2. Individuals are at high risk for chronic medical diseases, infectious diseases, and sexually transmitted diseases.
4. What class of socioeconomic status do members of this vulnerable population usually belong to?
8. "factors such as where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income, and education level, and our relationships with friends and family all have considerable impacts on health."
9. is associated with increased chronic health problems, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases, and other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, HIV and AIDS.
12. A measure of the risk of a certain event happening in one group compared to the risk of the same event happening in another group.
13. ___________ Populations; Groups of people who have heightened risk for adverse health outcomes.