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"Feeling Safe, Feeling Seen, Feeling Free": Combating stigma and creating culturally safe care for sex workers in Chicago.

Randi Beth SingerAmy K JohnsonNatasha CrooksDouglas BruceLinda WespAlexa KarczmarLucy Mkandawire-ValhmuSusan Sherman
Published in: PloS one (2021)
Our findings demonstrate how patient-centered care for sex-workers in Chicago might include holistic wellness exercises, accessible pay scales for services, and destigmatizing healthcare praxis. Focus on culturally safe healthcare provision presents needs beyond individualized, or even community-level, interventions. Ongoing provider training and inbuilt, systemic responsivity to patient needs and contexts is crucial to patient-centered care.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • palliative care
  • mental health
  • affordable care act
  • quality improvement
  • primary care
  • pain management
  • physical activity
  • health information
  • hiv aids
  • hepatitis c virus
  • hiv infected
  • body composition