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Innovations in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: Implications for Urbanization and Health

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This chapter describes the nexus of urbanization, human trafficking, and public health and identifies promising innovations to address global human trafficking. First, we briefly describe why human trafficking is an urban health concern. Second, we provide a brief overview of the social determinants of human trafficking. Third, we highlight innovative anti-trafficking efforts, including public awareness campaigns, vocational training, community education, and victim identification and support initiatives. Finally, we summarize the implications of these anti-trafficking interventions on urbanization and global health.

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    Many of these initiatives have not been rigorously evaluated; thus we label them as “promising,” but the lack of sound evaluation data is a gap that the anti-trafficking field needs to address.

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    The authors of this chapter are all affiliated with the Human Trafficking Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Department of Emergency Medicine.

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  1. Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place Suite 104, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Roy Ahn M.P.H., Sc.D., Genevieve Purcell B.A., Hanni Stoklosa M.D., Thomas F. Burke M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.R.S.M, Kathryn Conn B.A., Hannah L. Harp B.A., Emily de Redon B.A., Griffin Flannery B.A. & Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos M.D., M.P.H.

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Roy Ahn M.P.H., Sc.D., Hanni Stoklosa M.D., Thomas F. Burke M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.R.S.M & Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos M.D., M.P.H.

  3. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M553E6

    Anita M. McGahan Ph.D.

  4. Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Hannah L. Harp B.A.

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Ahn, R. et al. (2015). Innovations in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: Implications for Urbanization and Health. In: Ahn, R., Burke, T., McGahan, A. (eds) Innovating for Healthy Urbanization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7597-3_4

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