Baylor College of Medicine.
Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2021 May 1;209(5):324-329. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001312.
Climate change is a threat to the public health with wide-reaching impacts that are becoming more studied and recognized. An aspect of climate change that has not yet gained adequate scholarly attention is its potential impact on human trafficking. We review the potential impact of climate change on risk factors to human trafficking including poverty, gender inequality, political instability, migration or forced displacement, and weather disasters. We conclude that climate change is a crucially important consideration in understanding the complex and multifactorial risks for human trafficking. These findings add to the priority for health professionals to embrace efforts to prevent and to mitigate the effects of climate change and to take account of these risk factors in screening and identifying trafficked persons.
气候变化对公共健康构成了威胁，其广泛影响正日益受到研究和认识。气候变化尚未引起足够学术关注的一个方面是其对人口贩运的潜在影响。我们回顾了气候变化对人口贩运风险因素的潜在影响，包括贫困、性别不平等、政治不稳定、移徙或被迫流离失所以及恶劣天气灾害。我们的结论是，气候变化是理解人口贩运复杂和多因素风险的一个至关重要的考虑因素。这些研究结果增加了卫生专业人员的优先事项，即必须努力预防和减轻气候变化的影响，并在筛查和确定被贩运者时考虑到这些风险因素。
