Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Providers
- Document number
- 2173
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Providers
- Author/publisher
- International Organization for Migration (IOM), London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking in Persons (UN.GIFT)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- Assistance, Residence permit, Reintegration, Social assistance, Rehabilitation, Reflection period, Repatriation; Return; Redress, Protection, Social inclusion; Residence permit;
- Summary
- This document aims to provide practical, non-clinical guidance to help concerned health providers understand the phenomenon of human trafficking, recognize some of the health problems associated with trafficking and consider safe and appropriate approaches to providing health care for trafficked persons. It outlines the health provider's role in providing care and describes some of the limitations of his or her responsibility to assist. This resource attempts to respond to questions such as: "What special approaches are required for diagnosis and treatment of a patient who has been trafficked?" and "What can I do if I know or suspect someone has been trafficked?"
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