Article: Child maltreatment may take away two years of quality of your life

Article: CHILD MALTREATMENT VICTIMS LOSE TWO YEARS OF ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the following news release: Child maltreatment is associated with reductions ... during childhood. Of those, 26 percent reported physical abuse; 21 percent reported sexual abuse; 10 percent reported emotional abuse; 14 percent ...

Article: Preventing child maltreatment through public ...
Policy & Practice;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Child maltreatment is a significant public health ... 755,000 juvenile victims of child maltreatment live in this country, translating ... physical and emotional effects, child maltreatment has a negative effect on health ...

Article: Community-level factors and child maltreatment in a ...
Social Work Research;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... neighborhood structural factors and child maltreatment report rates in a suburban county ... replication of a method used in a study of child maltreatment in Cleveland, Ohio. Rates of child maltreatment were calculated for the county ...

Article: Child maltreatment risks and strategies. (Risk ...
Camping Magazine;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Risk Assessment Child maltreatment is a plague in our society ... to deal with the problem of child maltreatment. They believe perceptions ... There is a lag in the data on child maltreatment and some dispute over the ...

Article: Preventing child maltreatment: An evidence-based ...
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... systems responsible for recording child maltreatment. [1] In addition, child maltreatment definitions vary among countries and ... definitional and reporting limitations. Child maltreatment includes five major subtypes: physical ...

Article: Early Childhood Intervention Programs: opportunities and ...
Education & Treatment of Children;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Due to the destructive impact of child maltreatment and limited available funding to ... to prevent and identify cases of child maltreatment, among other varied objectives ... include services that address common child maltreatment risk factors, demonstrated reductions ...

Article: Measuring health-related quality of life for child ...
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes;  July 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... corresponding author) [2] Background Child maltreatment, typically defined as physical abuse ... of the lifetime economic impact of child maltreatment, as measured by direct medical costs ... underestimate of the true burden of child maltreatment due to the lack of accurate incidence ...