Child Maltreatment An Introduction

Medical Xpress: Impact of child maltreatment on the costs of health service use

A new Monash University study has found that child maltreatment costs Australia $21.6 billion in annual health service use costs and $24.1 billion in annual lost productivity. According to the World ...

Healio: Incidence of child maltreatment declined overall in US from 2012 to 2023

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Incidence of child maltreatment declined overall in US from 2012 to 2023

The Child and Youth Maltreatment Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) has released a new Practice Point for the assessment of children with suspected traumatic head injury related to child ...

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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Child maltreatment reports increased 4.9% year-over-year, according to new numbers from the Department of Child Safety. The agency received 45,051 total reports. The increase ...

New report shows Kentucky has double the national rate of child maltreatment cases. It's a sobering ranking - Kentucky's child abuse and neglect rate far outpaces the national numbers. That's ...

American Enterprise Institute: Child Maltreatment 2023: How the Government Continues to Undercount Maltreatment Fatalities and Report Misleading Trend Data

In a press release, announcing the publication of data on child maltreatment in Federal Fiscal Year 2023, the U.S. Administration on Children and Families reported that the number of child ...

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Child Maltreatment 2023: How the Government Continues to Undercount Maltreatment Fatalities and Report Misleading Trend Data

Child maltreatment is associated with physical and mental health problems, including eating and sleeping disorders, developmental delays, attachment disorders, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, ...