"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 ShermanPublished 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.