News tagged with child protection


Negative public images hamper child welfare investigators

Even parents who have had no contact with child welfare agencies believe negative stereotypes about social workers and the likely outcomes of abuse or neglect investigations, misconceptions that complicate agencies' efforts ...

Health created Mar 15, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Catastrophic neglect behind child deaths often overlooked

Neglect is not being taken seriously enough and should be treated with the same urgency as physical or sexual abuse, the NSPCC children's charity warned today following the publication of new research by the University of ...

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Queen's and NSPCC publish Northern Ireland's first child death and serious injury review

The first ever review of abuse cases related to child death or serious injury in Northern Ireland will be launched at Queen's University today (24 January 2013). The review, Translating Learning into Action, was commissioned ...

Health created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pneumonia remains the leading killer of children despite decline in global child deaths

Marking the fourth annual World Pneumonia Day, November 12th, world leaders and the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia are calling for major efforts in the fight against childhood pneumonia, which remains the number ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Serious child abuse injuries creep up, study shows

A new Yale School of Medicine study shows that cases of serious physical abuse in children, such as head injuries, burns, and fractures, increased slightly by about 5% in the last 12 years. This is in sharp contrast to data ...

Pediatrics created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hospitals in recession-hit areas see uptick in serious cases of child physical abuse

In the largest study to examine the impact of the recession on child abuse, researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's (CHOP) PolicyLab detected a significant increase in children admitted to the nation's largest ...

Pediatrics created Jul 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children hospitalized at alarming rate due to abuse

In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study. The findings are published ...

Health created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds primary health care providers fail to report substantial cases of child abuse

A team of researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), report that primary care providers (PCP) fail to report a substantial number of cases of child maltreatment. The study, ...

Health created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In homes with substantiated child abuse reports, study identifies groups at higher risk for reabuse

Children who remain in the home after a substantiated report of abuse may have more or less risk of further abuse depending on certain characteristics of their caregivers, according to a report published Online First today ...

Health created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0