Community Poverty and Child Abuse Fatalities in the United States
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Community Poverty and Child Abuse Fatalities in the United States.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Child maltreatment remains a problem in the United States, and individual poverty is a recognized risk factor for abuse. Children in impoverished communities are at risk for negative health outcomes, but the relationship of community poverty to child abuse fatalities is not known. Our objective was to evaluate the association between county poverty concentration and rat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-1616