Part I: Background and significance -- Ch. 1. Nature of the problem -- Ch. 2 The cultural context, the cultural excuse for exploitation -- Ch. 3. Violence against women as a systemic global problem -- Ch 4. Significance of problem from a cost standpoint -- Ch 5. Laws and bills -- Part II: Types- descriptions, stats, cases -- Ch 6. Sex trafficking -- Ch. 7. Sex trafficking in India and Seattle -- Ch 8. Forced Labor in the Philippines -- Ch 9. Organ trafficking -- Ch 10. Baby trafficking -- Ch 11. Child marriage and forced marriage- Obstetric fistula -- Ch 12. Child soldiers and forced marriage of girls in the camps -- Part III: Clinical Interventions -- Ch. 13. Healthcare professionals in the global fight against human trafficking -- Ch 14. Who are the victims -- Ch 15. Physical assessment and medical treatment -- Ch 16. Emergency Dept. Protocol -- Ch 17. Contraception for trafficked women along the US-Mexican border -- Ch 18. Mental health interventions sex traf -- Ch.19. Sex trafficking in India- psychiatric issues -- Ch 20. Social work interventions for sex trafficking survivors -- Part IV: Regional Resources, Programs, and Policies -- Ch 21. North America -- Ch 22. South America -- Ch 23. Europe -- Ch 24. Middle East -- Ch 25. Asia including India -- Ch 26. Australia- New Zealand -- Ch 27. Africa- HT in West Africa -- Part V: Research -- Ch. 28. Forced labor -- Ch. 29. Forced marriage -- Ch 30. Sex trafficking -- Ch 31. Organ trafficking -- Ch 32. Baby trafficking -- Ch 33. Child marriage in Sri Lanka -- Ch 34. Child soldiers.

This book presents various forms of human trafficking, a growing trend in the exploitation of large numbers of people with concurrent public health, socio-cultural, and economic costs to countries burdened with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Edited by psychiatric-mental health nurses and an applied anthropologist, this volume covers all forms of human trafficking: sex trafficking, forced labor, forced marriage, baby trafficking, organ trafficking, child marriage, and child soldiers with a global public health and policy focus. As such, it fills a gap in human trafficking knowledge and is built on courses springing up around the United States in multiple disciplines. Medical, mental health, and social work interventions are included as well as information about programs with documented outcomes. Each chapter includes state of the art of knowledge with case studies illustrating specific focal ideas,discussion, questions and exercises in order to help readers retain and reinforce chapter material. This textbook will be useful in the disciplines of nursing, medicine, public health, social work, and policy making, as well as in disciplines in which human trafficking is a current interest, such as law, criminal justice, and education.