HealthDay (12/19, Reinberg) reports, “The traumatic effects of child abuse and neglect can persist for decades, often with substantial economic consequences,” investigators found after examining “data on more than 8,000 British children born in 1958,” then following those youngsters “up to age 16.” The study revealed that “physical, social or emotional abuse in childhood was linked at midlife to a greater risk of time off from work due to long-term sickness,” the study published online Dec. 19 in Pediatrics reveals.
MedPage Today (12/19, Bachert) reports the authors of an accompanying editorialobserved, “We should all work toward effective, evidence-based policies to address child health, and that begins by not collapsing the full spectrum of social determinants of health under one umbrella term: child maltreatment.”
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— “The Impact of Child Abuse Can Last a Lifetime,”Steven Reinberg, HealthDay, December 19, 2016.