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Prevalence of Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Status in Chronic Rhinosinusitis Without Nasal Polyp

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International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
Do‐Yeon Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Trafficking of Children

Pediatric Annals, 2020
Human trafficking has been increasingly recognized worldwide as a major public health problem. It is a crime based on exploitation of the most vulnerable and marginalized people of any community and is a violation of human rights. Children, especially immigrant and refugee children, are at risk of victimization and may experience considerable physical ...
Jordan Greenbaum, Dena Nazer
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Economics of Human Trafficking

International Migration, 2010
AbstractBecause freedom of choice and economic gain are at the heart of productivity, human trafficking impedes national and international economic growth. Within the next 10 years, crime experts expect human trafficking to surpass drug and arms trafficking in its incidence, cost to human well‐being, and profitability to criminals (Schauer and Wheaton,
Thomas V. Galli   +2 more
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Human Trafficking

2020
This chapter addresses human trafficking in four sections: the nature and extent of the harm; the structure of human trafficking (considered in terms of source, transit and market); regulation and control; and finally a discussion about human trafficking as illicit business. The definitions and common types of human trafficking are reviewed, along with
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Modelling for Determinants of Human Trafficking [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 78 push and 67 pull factors suggested in the literature. By employing an extreme bound analysis, running more than two million regressions with all possible combinations of variables for up to 180 countries during the period of 1995-2010, I show ...
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Human Trafficking

Home Healthcare Now, 2017
Section I: Human Trafficking Explained 1. Introduction to Human Trafficking: Definitions and Prevalence (Burke) 2. Historical Perspective: Slavery over the Centuries (Newman) Section II: A Closer Look 3. Sociological Perspective: Underlying Causes (Cottingham, Nowak, Snyder, & Swauger) 4.
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Human Trafficking Overview

2015
Human trafficking (HT), also known as modern-day slavery, has received significant emphasis since the early 21st century. Globalization and transnational migration trends continue to amplify economic disparities and increase the vulnerability of oppressed populations to HT.
Fariyal Ross-Sheriff, Julie Orme
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Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking

2012
Trafficking and smuggling in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. In the world today, there are more slaves than at any other time in human history—these present-day slaves are the victims of human smuggling and human trafficking. Human trafficking refers to the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of forced labor,
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