Question

What is human trafficking and why should health care managers be concerned about it? Provide three examples of the push factors and three examples of the pull factors of human trafficking. If it is illegal, why does it continue to exist?

Answer 1

Ans) According to the US Department of State, human trafficking is “The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.”

- Human trafficking is a major global health problem, one that all health care providers cannot ignore. Although trafficking victims are unlikely to have adequate and timely access to health care, some victims will be seen in women’s health care practices for STIs, pregnancy, and/or abortion services. Health care providers should be prepared to identify, treat, and assist victims of trafficking as part of their regular clinical practice.