Child maltreatment remains a major public-health and social-welfare problem in high-
income countries. Every year, about 4–16% of children are physically abused and one in ten …

This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Background The relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the breadth
of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction …

Background: Nationally representative Canadian data on the prevalence of child abuse and
its relation with mental disorders are lacking. We used contemporary, nationally …

BACKGROUND: Strong, graded relationships between exposure to childhood traumatic
stressors and numerous negative health behaviors and outcomes, healthcare utilization …

Context There has been increasing concern about the impact of the global economic
recession on mental health. To date, findings on the relationship between income and …

Background In May 2009, the WHO and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (CDC, Atlanta GA) met in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin a …

Background: The relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the
breadth of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and household …

Background Childhood maltreatment has been linked to a variety of changes in brain
structure and function and stress–responsive neurobiological systems. Epidemiological …

Objective. Illicit drug use is identified in Healthy People 2010 as a leading health indicator
because it is associated with multiple deleterious health outcomes, such as sexually …