title: Adapting and retesting evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs: a case study in Canada.
abstract: This special issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada is timely, as child maltreatment is a significant public health problem; globally, the number affected is at least in the hundreds of millions. One-quarter of adults report having been physically abused and over one-third emotionally abused as children; one in 5 women and one in 13 men report having been sexually abused. Recent national surveys of violence against children conducted in Africa and in other low- and middle-income countries reveal rates of childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse even higher than the global rates.
authors.affiliation: Prevention of Violence (PVL), Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention (NVI), Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mikton
mesh_terms: D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D054521:Cultural Competency; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011637:Public Health Nursing