@article{ref1,
title="Health care and human trafficking: we are seeing the unseen",
journal="Journal of health care for the poor and underserved",
year="2016",
author="Chisolm-Straker, Makini and Baldwin, Susie and Gaïgbé-Togbé, Bertille and Ndukwe, Nneka and Johnson, Pauline N. and Richardson, Lynne D.",
volume="27",
number="3",
pages="1220-1233",
abstract="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. <br><br>METHODS: This was an anonymous, retrospective study of survivors of U.S.-based human trafficking. <br><br>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). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: While health care providers are serving this patient population, they do not consistently identify them as victims of human trafficking.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-2089",
doi="10.1353/hpu.2016.0131",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2016.0131"
}