Human Trafficking Among North American Indigenous Women: A Scoping Review.
Background/Objectives: Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel a person to provide labor or sex and has become a public health crisis. This scoping review aimed to identify known risk factors for trafficking among North American Indigenous women and to synthesize the comp...
| Publicado en: | Nursing Reports Vol. 16; no. 7; pp. 246 - 261 |
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Jul2026
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