Health and Human Rights
Volume 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-147

Sex trafficking and health care in metro manila: Identifying social determinants to inform an effective health system response (Article)

Williams T.P. , Alpert E.J. , Ahn R.* , Cafferty E. , Konstantopoulos W.M. , Wolferstan N. , Castor J.P. , Mcgahan A.M. , Burke T.F.
  • a Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, MA, United States
  • b School of Health Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • c Department of Global Health and Human Rights, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
  • d Initiative to End Slavery, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, United States
  • e Initiative to End Slavery, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, United States
  • f Division of Global Health and Human Rights, London, United Kingdom
  • g MGH Division of Global Health and Human Rights, United States
  • h Rotman School, University of Toronto, and Senior Economist, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Canada
  • i Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Harvard Medical School, United States

Abstract

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. © 2010 Williams.

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risk factor Health Policy health services health care service provision human rights Philippines trafficking risk assessment National Capital Region
Link
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ISSN: 10790969
Cited by: 10
Original Language: English