- Title
- Ensuring Universal Access: The Case for Medicare in Prison
- Creator
- Linnane, Damien; McNamara, Donna; Toohey, Lisa
- Relation
- Alternative Law Journal Vol. 48, Issue 2, p. 102-109
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231171160
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- This article makes the case for the provision of Medicare universally to all Australians, specifically to those who are currently incarcerated. As the article explains through its focus on mental health, the exclusion of Medicare from prisons was not part of the original design of the Australian health care system, and its ongoing absence has had dramatic impacts on the human rights and health of those in the criminal justice system.
- Subject
- criminal justice; access to health care; prisons; Medicare; health justice; mental health; SDG 3; SDG 10; SDG 16; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1482144
- Identifier
- uon:50867
- Identifier
- ISSN:1037-969X
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Request permissions for this article.
- Language
- eng
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