Health care providers and human trafficking: What do they know, what do they need to know? Findings from the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Central America

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Viergever, Roderik F ^a,b   West, Haley ^c   Borland, Rosilyne ^c   Zimmerman, Cathy ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crime; Health care providers; Human trafficking; Program evaluation; Trafficked persons; Training; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993207342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00006     Document Type: Article

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