Exploring the role of health sector in prevention of human trafficking.

Abstract

Over the past decade, human trafficking has become a global public health concern, which encompasses a serious violation of basic human rights on an international platform.[1] United Nations has defined human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.