About the project
The term "health" is often used in a rather simplified way, meaning an "absence of diseases". The focus on health has often been limited to treating illness and avoiding the spread of infection. This project has a much broader understanding of health, and looks at physical, mental and social health in prison.
The project examines how prison as an arena affects the health of everyone there including inmates and employees. The project will hopefully contribute knowledge on what we need to do more of in order to create better health conditions in prison, so that inmates can achieve better rehabilitation.
Method
Most of the data was collected in Norwegian low-security prisons, where it is expected to find more factors that can contribute to positive health outcomes. Shorter fieldwork has also carried out in Norwegian high-security prisons. The project had an open approach to the topic during data collection since health can be affected by a very wide variety of factors.
