Regulatory Agency
Running Head: REGULATORY AGENCY 1
Regulatory Agency
REGULATORY AGENCY 2 Prison health care provides the inmates with medical care from the prisons correctional health provider. There are many thoughts about why inmates should receive health care and one reason is that even though the inmates have committed crimes, he or she still needs medical treatment just as an individual that is not incarcerated. Problems, such as mental health, health and substance abuse tend to be more apparent in the prisons than within the communities. There are many inmates that are diagnosed with these problems after entering prison and may not have if he or she was not in prison. There are inmates that can be rehabilitated and in order to stay healthy these inmates need health care. Providing health care to prison inmates allows him or her to be protected against diseases that other inmates may have and teat inmates that have a disease. The role of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is to help improve the prisons quality of health care (The National Commission on Correctional Health Care retrieved from: www.ncchc.org). The first few years in 1970 was when the NCCHC first began, because the American Medical Association found prison’s to be inadequate, health services to be very disorganized, and were not up to its National Standards. In the 1980’s is when the American Medical Association started the NCCHC, which helped evaluate and develop programs and policies that were in need of assistance. Today, the NCCHC is widely recognized and provides the proper leadership setting standards (The National Commission on Correctional Health Care retrieved from: www.ncchc.org). The resources the NCCHC use in prisons have improved correctional facilities along
Regulatory Agency
REGULATORY AGENCY 2 Prison health care provides the inmates with medical care from the prisons correctional health provider. There are many thoughts about why inmates should receive health care and one reason is that even though the inmates have committed crimes, he or she still needs medical treatment just as an individual that is not incarcerated. Problems, such as mental health, health and substance abuse tend to be more apparent in the prisons than within the communities. There are many inmates that are diagnosed with these problems after entering prison and may not have if he or she was not in prison. There are inmates that can be rehabilitated and in order to stay healthy these inmates need health care. Providing health care to prison inmates allows him or her to be protected against diseases that other inmates may have and teat inmates that have a disease. The role of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is to help improve the prisons quality of health care (The National Commission on Correctional Health Care retrieved from: www.ncchc.org). The first few years in 1970 was when the NCCHC first began, because the American Medical Association found prison’s to be inadequate, health services to be very disorganized, and were not up to its National Standards. In the 1980’s is when the American Medical Association started the NCCHC, which helped evaluate and develop programs and policies that were in need of assistance. Today, the NCCHC is widely recognized and provides the proper leadership setting standards (The National Commission on Correctional Health Care retrieved from: www.ncchc.org). The resources the NCCHC use in prisons have improved correctional facilities along