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Child maltreatment risk as a function of poverty and race/ethnicity in the USA

Author(s) -

Hyunil Kim,

Brett Drake

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyx280

Subject(s) - poverty , ethnic group , demography , race (biology) , census , confidence interval , poison control , medicine , psychology , environmental health , sociology , population , economics , economic growth , gender studies , anthropology

Child maltreatment is a pressing social problem in the USA and internationally. There are increasing calls for the use of a public health approach to child maltreatment, but the effective adoption of such an approach requires a sound foundation of epidemiological data. This study estimates for the first time, using national data, total and type-specific official maltreatment risks while simultaneously considering environmental poverty and race/ethnicity.

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