Health Care

Health care is an essential service that provides medical treatment and support to individuals who are sick or injured. It encompasses a wide range of services, including preventative care, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. Healthcare is often provided by a range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, therapists, and support staff, and is supported by various institutions, including hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities.

Human trafficking often has a significant impact on the physical and mental health of its victims. Trafficked individuals may be subjected to physical and sexual violence, forced drug use, and other forms of abuse that can lead to serious physical and mental health problems. In addition, victims of trafficking may lack access to healthcare services due to their legal status, language barriers, or fear of retaliation by their traffickers.

Healthcare professionals have a critical role to play in identifying and responding to human trafficking. Through training and education, healthcare providers can learn to recognize the signs of trafficking and provide appropriate care and support to victims. This includes providing medical treatment for injuries and illnesses, as well as addressing the psychological and emotional trauma that many trafficking victims experience.

Efforts to combat human trafficking must also address the root causes that make individuals vulnerable to exploitation, including poverty, lack of access to education and healthcare, and other forms of social inequality. By addressing these underlying issues, healthcare systems can play a vital role in preventing human trafficking and promoting the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

 

 

Missouri prisoners say food went from bad to worse when contractor took over • Missouri Independent
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Missouri prisoners say food went from bad to worse when contractor took over • Missouri Independent

Missouri volunteer prison labor tends gardens that yield about 100 tons of fresh produce a year. For the most part, that food goes to local charities. The prisoners who grow it complain they get little fresh food. Instead, they get a lot of bologna. They say they’re served portions they consider too small and unappetizing….

Tennessee human trafficking numbers on the rise, growing need for help
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Tennessee human trafficking numbers on the rise, growing need for help

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Human trafficking numbers are on the rise in Tennessee and so is the need to help support trafficking survivors. The latest numbers from AncoraTN show human trafficking referrals for minors are up by more than 60% since 2021. “Human trafficking is taking place everywhere in Tennessee. In every zip code, every…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 10: Learn how we fill the Knowledge Vault with WordPress, CyberSEO, TaxoPress, JetPack, and more
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 10: Learn how we fill the Knowledge Vault with WordPress, CyberSEO, TaxoPress, JetPack, and more

Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning Today we celebrate the Knowledge Vault and I show you the “Behind the screens” of how a regular article on human trafficking from a news source gets added to the KV, and all the details on how I make it happen.  I explain the…

Human trafficking: Health care workers can be the first line of defense
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Human trafficking: Health care workers can be the first line of defense

Human trafficking cases have continued to rise in Texas since 2007. In 2020, a statewide survey by the Texas human trafficking council recorded the highest number of arrests related to human trafficking, with the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area accounting for 35% of the state’s commercial sexual exploitation cases. And these numbers only continue to rise….

Zimbabweans on COS suffering in the UK: Part II
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Zimbabweans on COS suffering in the UK: Part II

Dr Masimba Mavaza Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor. The scam, which plays on the acute shortages of nursing and care staff across Britain’s hospitals and care homes, has echoes of the debt…

Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 8: HTE: Chapter 2: Prevalence, “What is Human Trafficking?” blog on Radical Empathy, Discussion about creating an online safety course for the game industry
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Prevention Cohort LIVE Ep 8: HTE: Chapter 2: Prevalence, “What is Human Trafficking?” blog on Radical Empathy, Discussion about creating an online safety course for the game industry

Welcome to the Prevention Cohort LIVE stream, sponsored by PBJ Learning Today, we go over the Prevalence of Human Trafficking, from Chapter 2 of Human Trafficking Essentials. We go over the interactive sections and I share some of the “why” the course is written and designed the way it is. Our second section is a…

Research Urges More Sex Trafficking Training in Healthcare
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Research Urges More Sex Trafficking Training in Healthcare

Victims’ agency and needs, independent of their desire to exit trafficking, should be the focus of healthcare services for individuals who have been sexually exploited, concludes a new study by researchers with McGill University’s Ingram School of Nursing (ISoN). “Unfortunately, we found a lack of awareness on the part of healthcare professionals and the inability…

Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery That Can Happen Just Around the Corner, Say Advocates for Victims – The Tablet
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Human Trafficking is Modern-Day Slavery That Can Happen Just Around the Corner, Say Advocates for Victims – The Tablet

Portuguese maritime police investigate one of two sites where hundreds of human trafficking victims, mostly migrants from Southeast Asia, were found near Lisbon June 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Miguel Pereira, Reuters) LONDON (OSV News) — Human trafficking doesn’t happen only in far away places where human rights are neglected. It happens around the corner. It’s…