COVID-19 and the unseen pandemic of child abuse
Date
2022
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BMJ paediatrics open
Abstract
For children, the collateral damage of the
COVID-19 pandemic response has been
considerable: ‘nearly insurmountable’
educational losses,
deteriorating mental
health,
low routine childhood vaccination rates,
39 billion missed school meals
by January 20214
and millions of estimated
life-years lost among students in the USA
alone.
It is difficult to deny the harmful
impact of lockdowns on children, who are
society’s most vulnerable members. In this
paper, we use the framework of evidence based medicine to argue that child abuse
is another negative side effect of COVID-19
lockdowns
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COVID-19, risk, child abuse
Citation
Park, W., & Walsh, K. (2022). COVID-19 and the unseen pandemic of child abuse. BMJ paediatrics open, 6(1).