Human Trafficking Barbara Glickstein

Barbara Glickstein (2014) wrote a wonderful article titled “Human Trafficking: The Need for Nursing Advocacy.” Glickstein begins her article with a description of human trafficking, effectively describing it as a travesty of global proportion. Labeling trafficking as a disease, she explains how, like any other disease, it is important to educate the public to prevent and slow its progression. Glickstein describes how trafficking is a form of violence that causes physical and psychological harm. Due to the chance of interaction with these individuals as patients, nurses can play a key role in combatting this problem. Human trafficking is an international problem that has legal, social, and, and political implications. Nurses can play a major role in creating public awareness to help prevent this horrible human affliction. …show more content…
Although men are victims of human trafficking, women and children are more likely to be trafficked. Human trafficking includes not only sexual servitude, it also involves forced labor. Factors such as poverty, inflation, unemployment, etc. allow traffickers to take advantage of periods of weakness, recruiting victims when they are at their lowest. Those individuals who recruit persons to be trafficked come from all walks of life. They can act alone or as members of a group. Human trafficking has many negative implications and victims are more likely to experience physical, mental, and social issues that put them at risk for physical abuses, economic and legal issues, etc. (Glickstein,