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J Health Care Poor Underserved · Jan 2016
Health Care and Human Trafficking: We are Seeing the Unseen.
- Makini Chisolm-Straker, Susie Baldwin, Bertille Gaïgbé-Togbé, Nneka Ndukwe, Pauline N Johnson, and Lynne D Richardson.
- J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2016 Jan 1; 27 (3): 1220-33.
ObjectivesThis 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.MethodsThis was an anonymous, retrospective study of survivors of U.S.-based human trafficking.ResultsOne 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).ConclusionsWhile health care providers are serving this patient population, they do not consistently identify them as victims of human trafficking.
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