The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities

Abstract

respondents about their overall health condition but did not discuss specific physical health symptoms and limited participation to victims who were current drug users and still active in the commercial sex trade.See, e.g., Surratt et al., supra, at 46; Kurtz et al., Barriers, supra, at 346.Another 2004 study made unique contributions to the literature, revealing disturbing mortality rates among women in prostitution in Colorado and concluding that "[w]omen engaged in prostitution face the most dangerous occupational environment in the United States."