TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Sex trafficking and health care in Metro Manila: identifying social determinants to inform an effective health system response
JO  - Health and human rights
A1  - Williams, Timothy P.
A1  - Alpert, Elaine J.
A1  - Ahn, Roy
A1  - Cafferty, Elizabeth
A1  - Konstantopoulos, Wendy Macias
A1  - Wolferstan, Nadya
A1  - Castor, Judith Palmer
A1  - McGahan, Anita M.
A1  - Burke, Thomas F.
SP  - 135
EP  - 147
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - This social science case study examines the sex trafficking of women and girls in Metro Manila through a public health lens. Through key informant interviews with 51 health care and anti-trafficking stakeholders in Metro Manila, this study reports on observations about sex trafficking in Metro Manila that provide insight into understanding of risk factors for sex trafficking at multiple levels of the social environment: individual (for example, childhood abuse), socio-cultural (for example, gender inequality and a "culture of migration"), and macro (for example, profound poverty caused, inter alia, by environmental degradation disrupting traditional forms of labor). It describes how local health systems currently assist sex-trafficking victims, and provides a series of recommendations, ranging from prevention to policy, for how health care might play a larger role in promoting the health and human rights of this vulnerable population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1079-0969
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -