The incarcerated population presents health problems
related to infectious disease, substance abuse and, frequently, a
lifetime of being medically underserved. In particular, this
is a population at very high risk for Hepatitis C virus and HIV.
Prisons and jails offer uniquely important opportunities for
improving disease control in the community by providing health care
and disease prevention programs to a large and concentrated
population of individuals at high risk for disease.
The Indiana
Occupational Diseases Act is similar to the Indiana Worker’s
Compensation Act and is administered by the Worker’s Compensation
Board. To be compensable, an occupational disease must arise out of
and in the course of employment. The disease must be fairly traced
to the employment as the proximate cause, and not from a hazard
to which the employee could have been equally exposed outside of
employment. A physician’s opinion that the disease is an
occupational disease would be required to prove a case for benefits
for a disease.
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