Title |
Caring for the Trafficked Patient: Ethical Challenges and Recommendations for Health Care Professionals
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Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.msoc2-1701 |
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Authors |
Wendy L Macias-Konstantopoulos |
Abstract |
Human trafficking is an egregious human rights violation with profound negative physical and psychological consequences, including communicable diseases, substance use disorders, and mental illnesses. The health needs of this population are multiple, complex, and influenced by past and present experiences of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Effective health care services for trafficked patients require clinicians to consider individual patients' needs, wishes, goals, priorities, risks, and vulnerabilities as well as public health implications and even resource allocation. Applying the bioethical principles of respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice, this article considers the ethics of care model as a trauma-informed framework for providing health care to human trafficking victims and survivors. |
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United States | 7 | 54% |
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 8% |
Unknown | 5 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 8 | 62% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 23% |
Scientists | 1 | 8% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
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Unknown | 47 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 8 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 9% |
Researcher | 4 | 9% |
Other | 6 | 13% |
Unknown | 14 | 30% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 26% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 13% |
Social Sciences | 6 | 13% |
Psychology | 4 | 9% |
Arts and Humanities | 2 | 4% |
Other | 2 | 4% |
Unknown | 15 | 32% |