Child abuse: Current problems and key public health challenges

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 905-915

  Djeddah, Carol ^a   Facchin, Paola ^b   Ranzato, Cristina ^b   Romer, Claude ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Children at risk; Data collection; Public health

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY; SOCIAL POLICY;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIETY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIOLENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034666814     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00070-8     Document Type: Article

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