Contemporary approaches to child protection have significant limitations and unintended
consequences for children, parents, families, and communities. Statutory services struggle to …

Child maltreatment remains an area of concern for child advocates, policy makers, service
providers, and researchers across the globe and presents an enduring threat to public …

Child maltreatment calls for a broad range of preventative policies and practices, but limited
governmental funding and leadership has been devoted to the problem. Effective strategies …

Public health addresses child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences by
focusing primarily on preventing them from happening in the first place; understanding and …

Child maltreatment prevention efforts continuously evolve as developers learn from past
efforts and adjust to current realities. For many years, changes in context and family …

In this chapter, we draw on the epidemiology of child abuse to make the case for the
importance of taking a public health approach to the problem. From there, we describe the …

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available
evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening …

Child maltreatment is a public health problem of considerable magnitude. Though
substantial progress has been made in the prevention of child maltreatment, one incident of …

Much of the fabric in today's society is at odds with planning a robust and generative public
health response to child maltreatment prevention. A critical component of this problem is the …

Reviews on primary prevention have identified effective strategies to prevent child
maltreatment but have ignored potentially promising interventions that have not yet been …