For successful health promotion strategies, models focused on policy, systems, and environmental change is a way of modifying the environment to make resources available to the at-risk and vulnerable population, and help facilitate healthy choices.
Sources:https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/health-promotion/2/strategies/policy-systems-environmentalhttp://plan4health.us/policy-systems-and-environmental-change-strategies/
The limited data available to this topic shows that among the prison SUD population, up to 40% have HCV compared to a prevalence of about 1% in the non-institutionalized adult population in Alaska. The CDC has linked the increase in HCV infections to the worsening opioid crisis. There is evidence that attempts to reduce the supply and demand for drugs is associated with a reduction in HCV.
Sources:https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2017/hepatitis-c-and-opioid-injection-press-release.htmlhttps://ldi.upenn.edu/healthpolicysense/opioids-and-hepatitis-c-how-oxycontin-fed-new-epidemic
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