Citation

Djeddah C, Facchin P, Ranzato C, Romer C. Soc. Sci. Med. 2000; 51(6): 905-915.

Affiliation

Violence and Injury Prevention, Social Change and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10972434

Abstract

Child abuse has recently been recognized by the World Health Organization as a major worldwide health problem impairing the health and welfare of children and adolescents. This paper attempts to look at child abuse from a public health perspective taking into account the vast cultural diversity in which children and adolescents live focusing on the issue of abuse and violence in a broad public health perspective, and trying to highlight the need for greater attention to be given to possible country-specific interventions.

Language: en