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Approaches to Preventing Child Abuse. The Health Visitors Concept

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C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect

Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment ((MALT,volume 1))

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This paper, Approaches to Preventing Child Abuse: The Health Visitor’s Concept, published in 1976 in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, is C. Henry Kempe’s 1975 George Armstrong Lecture. It forms the basis of the commentaries included in succeeding chapters in this section of the book.

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    Read as the Armstrong lecture before the annual meeting of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, Toronto, June 9, 1975.

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Kempe, C.H. (2013). Approaches to Preventing Child Abuse. The Health Visitors Concept. In: Krugman, R., Korbin, J. (eds) C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Maltreatment, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4084-6_15

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