Pediatric emergency department visits due to child abuse and neglect following COVID-19 public health emergency declaration in the Southeastern United States

• Hauptverfasser: Lindsey Rose Bullinger (Verfasst von), Angela Boy (Verfasst von), Stephen Messner (Verfasst von), Shannon Self-Brown (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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Abstract Background The ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has heightened several risk factors  for child abuse and neglect (CAN). We study whether COVID-19 and the public health response to it affected CAN-related pediatric emergency department (ED) visits in the southeastern United States (US). M...