TY - JOUR
T1 - Health care and human trafficking
T2 - We are seeing the unseen
AU - Chisolm-Straker, Makini
AU - Baldwin, Susie
AU - Gaïgbé-Togbé, Bertille
AU - Ndukwe, Nneka
AU - Johnson, Pauline N.
AU - Richardson, Lynne D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Meharry Medical College.
PY - 2016/8
Y1 - 2016/8
N2 - Objectives. This study aimed to build the evidence base around human trafficking (HT) and health in the U.S. by employing a quantitative approach to exploring the notion that health care providers encounter this population. Furthermore, this study sought to describe the health care settings most frequented by victims of human trafficking. Methods. This was an anonymous, retrospective study of survivors of U.S.-based human trafficking. Results. One hundred and seventy-three participants who endured U.S.-based human trafficking were surveyed. The majority (68%, n=117) of participants were seen by a health care provider while being trafficked. Respondents most frequently reported visiting emergency/urgent care practitioners (56%), followed by primary care providers, dentists, and obstetricians/gynecologists (OB/GYNs). Conclusions. While health care providers are serving this patient population, they do not consistently identify them as victims of human trafficking.
AB - Objectives. This study aimed to build the evidence base around human trafficking (HT) and health in the U.S. by employing a quantitative approach to exploring the notion that health care providers encounter this population. Furthermore, this study sought to describe the health care settings most frequented by victims of human trafficking. Methods. This was an anonymous, retrospective study of survivors of U.S.-based human trafficking. Results. One hundred and seventy-three participants who endured U.S.-based human trafficking were surveyed. The majority (68%, n=117) of participants were seen by a health care provider while being trafficked. Respondents most frequently reported visiting emergency/urgent care practitioners (56%), followed by primary care providers, dentists, and obstetricians/gynecologists (OB/GYNs). Conclusions. While health care providers are serving this patient population, they do not consistently identify them as victims of human trafficking.
KW - Emergency medicine
KW - Human trafficking
KW - Slavery
KW - Vulnerable
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U2 - 10.1353/hpu.2016.0131
DO - 10.1353/hpu.2016.0131
M3 - Article
C2 - 27524764
AN - SCOPUS:84981303210
SN - 1049-2089
VL - 27
SP - 1220
EP - 1233
JO - Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
JF - Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
IS - 3
ER -
