Unlocking potential: challenges for primary health care researchers in the prison setting

Abstract

This issue of Primary Health Care Research and Development features a number of papers concerned with researching the needs of, and services for, socially excluded groups. Many prisoners have experienced social exclusion including running away from home as a child, truanting and exclusion from school, poor numeracy and reading skills, unemployment, and homelessness. The social disadvantage that many prisoners experience also affects their families, particularly children, as well as the community from which they originate.