Home visiting and child injury

EDITOR,-Ian Roberts and colleagues' systematic review of home visiting programmes and the prevention of child injury and child abuse neglects a key methodological issue in the discussion. 1 The authors fail to describe the overlap between childhood injury and abuse: many injuries to children ar...

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Published in:BMJ 1996-09, Vol.313 (7057), p.625-625
Main Authors: MacMillan, Harriet, Offord, Dan, Roberts, Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Battered child syndrome
Child abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Child neglect
Child psychiatry
Childhood
Children & youth
Injuries
Letters
Parenting
Physical trauma
Prevention
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Summary:EDITOR,-Ian Roberts and colleagues' systematic review of home visiting programmes and the prevention of child injury and child abuse neglects a key methodological issue in the discussion. 1 The authors fail to describe the overlap between childhood injury and abuse: many injuries to children are the result of poor parenting or inadequate supervision.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.313.7057.625