Governmental and Non-governmental Public Systems: Part II Introduction

This chapter introduces the subsequent chapters in Part II: Governmental and Nongovernmental Public Systems. This introduction provides a brief overview of US government and other public systems—including child welfare, criminal justice system, and health care—and their historical and continued intersections with labor and sex trafficking. The introduction describes how formal recognition of human trafficking as a public health problem demands concerted primary prevention-focused governmental and nongovernmental responses.