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- Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems. Child abuse and neglect can have long-term impacts on health, opportunity, and well-being.
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May 16, 2024 · Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems. Child abuse and neglect can have long-term impacts on health, opportunity, and well-being.
- A Public Health Approach to Child Abuse and Neglect
In situations where abuse has already happened, child and...
- A Public Health Approach to Child Abuse and Neglect
Child maltreatment (CM) is internationally recognized as a serious public health, human rights, legal, and social problem (World Health Organization, 2006). Epidemiological studies show that CM is extremely common. Approximately one in four children is affected at some point in their lives (Lippard & Nemeroff, 2020).
- 10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230201
- 2023/04
- Clin Neuropsychiatry. 2023 Apr; 20(2): 72-99.
Jul 20, 2023 · Child maltreatment and family violence are serious public health issues that can have long-lasting consequences on survivors, including serious mental health challenges, impaired cognitive abilities, and difficulties forming healthy relationships.
May 16, 2024 · In situations where abuse has already happened, child and family treatment may help reduce the health consequences of child abuse and neglect, prevent abuse recurrence, decrease risk for other violence types, and decrease the likelihood that individuals will abuse their own children.
Jan 1, 2020 · This is especially true for certain types of childhood maltreatment (especially emotional abuse and neglect) which may never come to clinical attention but independent of physical abuse and neglect or sexual abuse have devastating consequences on health.
- Elizabeth T.C. Lippard, Charles B. Nemeroff
- 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19010020
- 2020
- 2020/01/01
summarizes how public health can address the issue of child maltreatment in Canada by specifically: 1) measuring the magnitude of maltreatment through public health sur-veillance systems such as the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect; 2) identifying modifiable risk factors; 3) identifying and evaluating community-
- Scope of The Problem
- Consequences of Maltreatment
- Risk Factors
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- Who Response
Child maltreatment is a global problem with serious life-long consequences. In spite of recent national surveys in several low- and middle-income countries, data from many countries are still lacking. Child maltreatment is complex and difficult to study. Current estimates vary widely depending on the country and the method of research used. Estimat...
Child maltreatment has often severe short- and long-term physical, sexual and mental health consequences. These include injuries, including head injuries and severe disability, in particular in young children; post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. Adolescent girls may face additional h...
Several risk factors for child maltreatment have been identified. Not all risk factors are present in all social and cultural contexts, and the list here provides an overview when attempting to understand the causes of child maltreatment.
Preventing and responding to child maltreatment requires a multisectoral approach. The earlier such interventions occur in children's lives, the greater the benefits to the child (e.g. cognitive development, behavioural and social competence, educational attainment) and to society (e.g. reduced delinquency and crime). Effective and promising interv...
WHO, in collaboration with partners: 1. provides guidance for evidence-based child maltreatment prevention; see INSPIRE Seven strategies to end violence against children 2. provides evidence-based guidance to help frontline healthcare providers recognize children who have suffered from violence and neglect and provide evidence-based first line supp...
