A multidisciplinary response to commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is associated with child abuse, neglect, poverty, homelessness, and societal causes. Sex trafficking is the participation in commercial sex acts in which force, fraud, or coercion occur. This article discusses the scope of CSEC and sex trafficking, and the necessary identification skills and medical evaluations needed to help these patients.
Pamela T. Avila is a clinical instructor at Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing and a medical examiner at CARES Northwest, Portland, Ore.
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