National Characterization of Victims of Human Trafficking in Chile

The phenomenon of human trafficking stresses the countries of the world to direct their policies towards this form of modern slavery, emphasizing the detection, prevention, reparation and protection of victims. This study is of national character and aims to know and describe the sociodemographic characteristics, health status and access of victims of human trafficking in Chile, between 2012 and the first half of 2018, through the admissions of victims of trafficking reported by the regional referents of Violence and gender of the Seremis of health of the country. The present study is quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional, based on the administrative and health records reported by the Regional Health Seremis of the cases of victims of trafficking in persons. its main objectives were to know the sociodemographic, health and health care characteristics of the victims of trafficking, which were identified through the reports made by institutions belonging to the Intersectoral Roundtable on Trafficking in Persons (MITP) as well as those who did not enter via formal MITP protocol.