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The Public Health Approach to the Prevention of Child Maltreatment

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Child maltreatment is a serious public health problem because it is disruptive to the healthy development of a child and a pathway to poor health. Historically, many complex issues seen as social and safety issues have achieved great progress from public health’s contributions. With infrastructure existing in every state and territory within the United States, public health can and should lead an effort to prevent child maltreatment before it occurs. This chapter discusses the public health approach to the prevention of child maltreatment which differs from the child welfare or criminal justice perspectives that have often predominated the efforts to address child maltreatment.

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    Patricia Y. Hashima

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Hashima, P.Y. (2014). The Public Health Approach to the Prevention of Child Maltreatment. In: Korbin, J., Krugman, R. (eds) Handbook of Child Maltreatment. Child Maltreatment, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3_16

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