title: Child abuse: current problems and key public health challenges.
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.
authors.affiliation: Violence and Injury Prevention, Social Change and Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Djeddah
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Facchin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ranzato
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000639:trends*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*